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Coffee Break
Posted: August 12th, 2007, 10:09 pm
by mnaz
"But it just goes back and forth... how can you even begin to solve it that way?"
He says: "I tell you, you're wasting too much time on this war. It's always been like that; a simple fact of life, this war". And he's right. I can see that. Once you dig a trench, that trench is it, and the view is of splendid fresh burial all around.
"But didn't Camus write a brilliant allegorical refutation of the spread of fascism and corporate war, set somewhere in Algeria?".... "Probably", he says.
Posted: August 13th, 2007, 3:38 am
by mistertroll
Once you dig a trench, that trench is it, and the view is of splendid fresh burial all around.
and the only escape
to be cast out.
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 2:01 am
by mnaz
or cast in....
something about a bullet pace and exploding flesh and fresh dug earth, the smell of it, the touch of it; something stunningly elemental...
ahhh, but that was a different, more primitive era of warfare, wasn't it?
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 4:43 pm
by mtmynd
mnaz: "more primitive era of warfare.."
the tools of war change but the rules of war do not - win or lose like any other game, even if it means annihilation.
interesting piece your wrote here, friend.
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 8:57 pm
by stilltrucking
Mnaz wrote
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He says: "I tell you, you're wasting too much time on this war. It's always been like that; a simple fact of life, this war".
"Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. -Gustave Flaubert"
War is a game okay
A hell of a game for some
and good business for others.
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sorry mnaz,
I hate it when my rambles are longer than your orginal post
thanks for writing.
Posted: August 14th, 2007, 9:09 pm
by Lightning Rod
as Molly Ivins was fond of saying
"when you find yourself in a hole, quit digging."
Posted: August 15th, 2007, 12:24 am
by hester_prynne
Walk away from it.
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