[spectre] on Palestine

Fri, 10 May 2002 00:26:47 +0200

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And then everybody's thoughts turned to revenge. They had plenty of =
precedent: the entire history of the race, not just their race but the =
human race, exposed in memory like a photographic print gathering =
darkness the further back into time it reaches, a temporal negative. The =
watched the images of tanks creaking ominously as they were backed down =
ramps from the massive carriers in the desert, and pledged revenge. =
(They also considered these fuming, immediate, intensely terrifying =
things in themselves. Not the shots. _We_ watched the shots, on =
television.) And saw the shells crashing into civilian settlements, and =
pledged revenge. And surveyed the exploded glass scattered across the =
cobblestones, the carnage, the terminally crashed hopes, and considered =
the possibilities. And plotted and planned and surveyed and schemed and =
did all those things that twine like thorns, or the DNA spiral itself, =
through our collective memories and dreams and, not least, throughout =
recorded (that is, recoded) history. And it wasn't good. It was a bloody =
mess.=20

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