Nov 15, 2001
There's been quite a lot happening the last couple of days as
There's been quite a lot happening the last couple of days as you well know. The fall of Kabul (though I tend to prefer Cobble), the release of the aid workers, the retreat of the Taliban, etc. The pace is going pretty fast - a situation which generally causes turbulence. Sometimes one has to acknowledge that the US military can be pretty effective when fully engaged; regardless of your politics. It's hardly surprising that Putin and Bush are having a BBQ tonight. The words "carving up" come to mind.
I spent yesterday in Retail 101. Information overload. Back at it tomorrow. In the midst of it all, the bathroom is getting painted tomorrow and then they start putting it all back together again.
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TechnoratiThe Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."
Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."
Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
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