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*Please explain the "short to boot" idiom : I can see it used as both a positive or a negative...
*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.
*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."
**"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!  
***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!  

Revision as of 19:26, 10 August 2006

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Konoko
Welcome to my collapsed moral universe.

  • 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."

GC


  • 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.

AF


  • 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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