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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