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HERE you find an m4a file of mine. As the title says, it has something to share with that sentence of yours: "Konoko: Welcome to my collapsed moral universe."

Credit for that line goes to a book I recently read. It's titled: War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by former war correspondent Chris Hedges. Quite a remarkable statement on both modern society and the human condition, and short to boot, so it's worth checking out. I've been pulling a lot out of it lately, honestly.

Please explain the "short to boot" idiom : I can see it used as both a positive or a negative...
Those who can't or won't read War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (like me) can go for an interview with Chris Hedges. It's shorter, and makes all the relevant points without much pathos.
See also Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere : a short article trying to explain "pointless" massacres (running amok). As for movies, make sure you've seen Full Metal Jacket :
- "Believe it or not, but under fire, Animal Mother can be a wonderful human being. All he needs is somebody throwing grenades at him 'til the end of his life."
  - Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!
  - Why should we do a story about you?
  - 'Cuz I'm so fuckin' good! I done got me 157 dead gooks killed. Plus 50 water buffalo too! Them's all confirmed!
  - Any women or children?
  - Sometimes!
  - How can you shoot women or children?
  - Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much! Ain't war hell?
Borrowing the first sentence of a narrative from an existing piece doesn't seem right.
If Konoko talks about her moral universe with as much distance as Hedges talks about his, doesn't that make her inconveniently lucid?

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 *Please explain the "short to boot" idiom : I can see it used as both a positive or a negative...
 *Those who can't or won't read [http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1400034639-0 War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning] (like me) can go for [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week622/hedges.html an interview with Chris Hedges]. It's shorter, and makes all the relevant points without much pathos.
-*See also [http://www.monochrom.at/amok/ Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere] : a short article trying to explain "pointless" massacres (running amok). As for movies, make sure you've seen [ Full Metal Jacket] :
+*See also [http://www.monochrom.at/amok/ Every Five Seconds an Inkjet Printer Dies Somewhere] : a short article trying to explain "pointless" massacres (running amok). As for movies, make sure you've seen [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093058/ Full Metal Jacket] :
 **"Believe it or not, but under fire, Animal Mother can be a wonderful human being. All he needs is somebody throwing grenades at him 'til the end of his life."
 ***Git some! Git some! Git some, yeah, yeah, yeah! Anyone that runs, is a VC. Anyone that stands still, is a well-disciplined VC! You guys oughta do a story about me sometime!