http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/13/ditto/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/03/13/ditto/comment-page-1/#comment-21276 Colin Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:42:51 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1234#comment-21276 And I would have liked to have written something like this: <i>The Diameter of the Bomb</i> <i>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.</i> <i>-Yehuda Amichai</i> As quoted in Norman Geras' blog: [http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/]. There is more there... 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…

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