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Journal & Weblog Write to Save Your Life March 30, 2003

Wordlog

dutch feast
Where the entertainer gets drunk before his guest.
(1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)

semaphore
1. A visual signaling apparatus with mechanically moving arms. 2. A system for signaling with flags held in the hand.
(Webster's New Riverside Dictionary)

politico-military
Referring to theory, policy, or actions that combine political effort with military effort. Concerned with the melding of military and political methods and ideas to attain ultimate policy objectives.
(Language of the Specialists)

 
Booklog

Coin Locker Babies by Ryu Murakam
The woman pushed on the baby's stomach and sucked its penis into her mouth; it was thinner than the American menthols she smoked and a bit slimy, like raw fish.

Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

Finished

 
Howard Dean for President, 2004
 


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