Wednesday, March 18, 2009

AIG & Charles Simic

Here's a suggestion from our poet laureate that could be implemented to deal with the financial disaster's rogues and thieves. "Deterrence by example. Let's bomb X so that Y and Z will know we mean business & behave. By that logic why not hang a few crooked politicians & bankers so that others may be warned." hmmmmmmmm While I'm at it, in a similar vein, he wrote, "Centuries ago, when the king's advisors gave wrong predictions as to the outcome of military campaigns, they were tortured & publicly executed. In our days, they continue being called "experts" and appear on TV."  & while I'm quoting, here's one from Antonio Porchia (translated by W.S. Merwin),      
       What words say does not last. The words last.
       Because words are always the same, &
       what they say is never the same.

This is like writing a report in grade school(high school, college) ; just copy word for word from various sources. I think the saying is "Plagiarism is the highest form of compliment."

 

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