Ditto

Posted by Ted

I’ve written, revised and rejected a number of thoughts about the terrorist massacre in Madrid. I would have liked to have written something like this.

posted on Saturday, March 13th, 2004 at 11:40 pm
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  1. And I would have liked to have written something like this: The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimetres and the diameter of its effective range – about seven metres. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. But the young woman who was buried where she came from over a hundred kilometres away enlarges the circle greatly. And the lone man who weeps over her death in a far corner of a distant country includes the whole world in the circle. And I won’t speak at all about the crying of orphans that reaches to the seat of God and from there onward, making the circle without end and without God. -Yehuda Amichai As quoted in Norman Geras’ blog: [http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/]. There is more there…

    Posted by Colin · March 14th, 2004 at 3:42 am