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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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28.5.02

Signs of Thaw in a Desert of Snow (washingtonpost.com)
One of the elders said that these things never used to happen. It is something new to them."
Near the sea's edge, the ice floes are melting. The hunters are heading out on snowmobiles. Natsiapik Naglingniq knows they are headed into danger, unable to rely on the weather or the ice, which is opening and closing, teasing those who walk across it. Just the other day, a hunter went on the local radio to warn that the ice seems to be melting from the bottom.
{first read 'This Cold Heaven' Gretel Ehrlich's fine graceful deeply humble book weaving her months and years of Greenland time with Knud Rasmussen's epic human endeavors. especially her depiction of the still (at that time anyway) unresolved conflict between traditional and high-tech means of survival. point being that this article glosses over that. point being that that mind-set is a prelude to the delivery of the big 'We all did this.' propaganda. so you can see that ignoring that conflict between old ways and 'progress' makes the actual perpretators harder to pick out in the crowd. there are perpetrators. they aren't everybody. the 'powers that be' is a good place to start looking}

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