I think this way, too, as one must (the optimism, Bill and Lawrence)!
Nice.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Ha! It may be all we have
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> L
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> On 27 August 2014 12:47, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Loud buckets, I suspect, L, will trump markets in the end.
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> > Bill
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> > On Wed, Aug 27th, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Lawrence Upton <
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> > wrote:
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> > > It is half past two in the afternoon.
> > >
> > > Mechanisms bang away. People scurry.
> > >
> > > What are we to do? There isn't enough
> > >
> > > money to continue, they say; nor funds
> > >
> > > for necessary growth. We are held here;
> > >
> > > and restrained. We shall be beaten. Markets
> > >
> > > decide the quality of our justice;
> > >
> > > our civilisation in general.
> > >
> > > There is neither time; nor talent.
> > >
> > > The machines upon which we have relied break
> > >
> > > and have not been much repaired. What to do?
> > >
> > > Someone tips hot soapy water across
> > >
> > > an entrance foyer. Clatter of metal;
> > >
> > > the handle swings over, banging against
> > >
> > > a step, and slips out of her hands, tumbling.
> > >
> > > Part of the floor pattern chips. She tries to
> > >
> > > go quietly, picks up sideways the loud bucket.
> > >
> > > A droning voice becomes audible, separable.
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> > >
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