Flights of fancy

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alice did not wish to offend the Dormouse again, so she began very 
cautiously: "But I don't understand. Where did they draw the treacle from?"

"You can draw water out of a water-well," said the Hatter; "so I should 
think you could draw treacle out of a treacle-well--eh, stupid?"

"But they were IN the well," Alice said to the Dormouse, not choosing to 
notice this last remark.

"Of course they were", said the Dormouse; "--well in."

This answer so confused poor Alice, that she let the Dormouse go on for 
some time without interrupting it.

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NY Times op-ed, May 13, 2004
Dancing Alone
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Why, in the face of the Abu Ghraib travesty, wouldn't the administration 
make some uniquely American gesture? Because these folks have no clue 
how to export hope. They would never think of saying, "Let's close this 
prison immediately and reopen it in a month as the Abu Ghraib Technical 
College for Computer Training — with all the equipment donated by Dell, 
H.P. and Microsoft."

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