It is the most horrifying thing. To think in 2009 that people can be
roasted alive in their homes and cars in communities with safety
procedures and fire breaks, etc, in place, is terrifying. The flames
were a veritable inferno moving faster than cars could drive away and
leaping ahead in giant strides that caught people tragically by
surprise.
There will be a Royal Commission. There will be changes to procedures.
There will be great State, Commonwealth, corporate and personal
support for the costs of starting again, but there will be no miracles
bringing back the dead.
I live on the west coast, a desert away. Today the temperature has
soared here up to 40 Celsius, and I am afraid we have firebugs we who
have a history of starting fires in our wooded areas, like where I
walk my dog. I hope the buggers who get caught over east for starting
any fires are charged with murder.
Andrew
2009/2/11 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>:
> "'He said he didn't recognize me, but he said that if I'd eaten sweet potatoes, he had planted them.'"—Great Girl by Kim Su Theiler
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> Not bad, not bad at all. I don't know who this is, but I found it on Laura Marks website - a very interesting Vancouver critic & curator who, incidentally has written much of value on touch and haptics and such. (Vancouver has such a great history of producing first rate writers and intellects - Lisa Robertson among them). Sadly, I hear, Robin Blaser will soon pass from a bout with cancer, another great 20th century poet and thinker.
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> I assume nobody is hearing this in Australia - the specter and horror of flames must be a sustained horror to the imagination and much else. Leaves me speechless from way afar.
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http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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