Word: fogs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...than it should have, and the pettifogging afterblather is more than decent citizens should be asked to endure. I have pulled the covers over my head. In the month since the election, I have reread "War and Peace," interminable and still the greatest novel. No one ever described the fog of battle better than Tolstoy. I have lately been comforting myself with the Book of Proverbs, which I carry around in a pocket edition from Grove Press and dip into whenever I have had too much of "Hardball" or "The O'Reilly Factor...
Delta is surprisingly organized. Unfortunately, their organization can't make up for the rain, fog, or LaGuardia's typical chaos and congestion. I receive a green ticket, number 90, and I'm directed into a line with other spiritually and emotionally broken travelers. We all sit down like a herd of sheep, forced into a corner with nothing but concrete under our feet. "We" are mostly college kids and a few lonely professionals and grandparents...
...Rome. Through Rich's instinctive search for the figure of Orion, listeners and readers voyage with the poet through a life of activism, looking through "history's bloodshot eyes" across "the pathetic erections of soothsayers," before establishing Rich as a poet and activist "practiced in life," who scans the fog for her midnight salvage...
...While the outward appearance of Sadie was the same as it had always been (with maybe a few more grey hairs), her outward behavior was markedly different. This year, instead of continually and incessantly begging for and attempting to steal food, Sadie walked around in a fog, her tail lazily wagging, with what I would swear was a stupid grin on her face. When I asked my parents about this strange, albeit more manageable behavior, they confided that they had placed our family dog on anti-anxiety medication, the equivalent, I would guess, of doggie-Prozac. They said...
...report. I decided immediately that the princess would have done the sweet and selfless thing, and, like Rick Blaine sending Ilsa Lund off with Victor Lazlo on the Lisbon plane at the end of "Casablanca," would have sacrificed her own happiness, swallowed her regret, and withdrawn in a fog of nobility...