Drop It
Bill Nolan
bnolan at halcyon.com
Wed Aug 9 01:29:50 CDT 1995
One "jp4321 at soho.ios.com (jporter)" writes:
> The thing that turns me off about the bomb is that it's a big
> waste of energy. That, and the fact that it turns so much
> interesting information into useless noise, so quickly.
What about all those human beings that got turned into "useless" ash? Or
were they not "interesting"?
The attack on Hiroshima was not something that happened in a book. Real
people really died; others suffered real pain more intense than anything
you, jporter, despite your subtle and refined literary sensibility, are
likely ever to experience.
--Bill
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Bill Nolan, Writer/Editor/Wiseguy http://www.halcyon.com/bnolan/
Amid slender firs in the green and gray Northwest bnolan at halcyon.com
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