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Saved by the Carrots
Try as I might, I can’t keep “politics” out of this blog. For one thing, all writing is political. I THINK Joy Harjo said that, but she may just have passed it on. When I do politics, I like to keep it poetry (or at least arts) related or else of local interest. The link here may be neither of those things, though as a first-hand account of what it’s like to live in Baghdad right now, it’s a gripping piece of writing.
These last few days have been explosive- quite literally. It started about 4 days ago and it hasn’t let up since. They say there were around 14 car bombs in Baghdad alone a couple of days ago- although we only heard 6 from our area. Cars are making me very nervous lately. All cars look suspicious- small ones and large ones. Old cars and new cars. Cars with drivers and cars parked in front of restaurants and shops. They all have a sinister look to them these days.
Go and read the entire post, and find out about the carrots. Thanks to Jeff Hess for pointing me to the post. I read Baghdad Burning regularly but she doesn’t post every day and so I don’t always check.
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1. TR replies at 5th May 2005, 8:10 am :
Literature is ineluctably political. I’m currently reading Terry Jones’ collaboration on the possible murder of Chaucer. The main theory is that T. Arundel, once and future Archbishop of Canterbury and Karl Rove-like eminent grease, could not thole any satire that began to hint of criticism of the least whisper of illegitimacy of Church officers and their little dogs too. Also reading a new bio of Ray Bradbury, author of FAHRENHEIT 451 and descendant of a woman condemned to death at Salem for witchcraft [she scarpered with the help of her rich husband]. All writing is rhetorical according to Wayne Booth–a self-evident fact if one reads Chaucer’s HOUS OF FAME closely [how could he have had such an accurate vision of CNN or Fox News? Oh, he was imitating Dante's INFERNO].
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