Yes but did it spill your drink?
John Charlton.
Derby
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> From: Ahmad Risk <[log in to unmask]>
> To: gp-uk <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Life's a roulette
> Date: 01 June 1998 21:25
>
> It weighed in at 6.4 at the epicentre just east of Crete. It must have
> been about 5 or 4.8 by the time the shockwave reached Cairo some 500Km
> away.
>
> We were on the 6th floor. A small rumble then the crystal on the
> chandeliers began to tinkle. Then the anchor of the chandelier to the
> ceiling moved. Then the floor went a funny shape, something like a
> wave. For some reason, you cover your ears with your hands. Then it
> stopped. No damage. It made me think.
>
> It made consider and appreciate my own less than microscopic status in
> this world.
>
> An earthquake is deaf and blind. It just goes that way or the other and
> does not steer itself to avoid humanity. It just goes its own sweet
> way.
>
> All of this. All of it, high, big and grand. All of our achievements,
> pyramids, moon landings, pics from Mars, Beethoven's late quartets,
> computers and everything else, all of it can go in less than the blink
> of an eye.
>
> The great fault line that created the Rift Valley, the Red Sea and the
> Dead Sea and God knows what else seems to have shifted a couple of
> degrees west. Few more countries are now included in the deadly game.
>
> And life is a roulette. The only thing you can do is to surrender all.
>
> Few thousand more people dead in 2 recent quakes. I feel for them and
> yet, how I long to be 'inhuman'.
>
> How I long to be non-human! How I long to be a speck of cosmic dust
> hurtling at unspeakable speed from nowhere to nowhere!
>
> I am too bored for all of this now.
>
> Ahmad
>
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