Zones and thaings.......

[calbert at tiac.net]

thought this might trigger some re-call for WARLOCK readers:

from INSIDE THE GULAG , New York Review of Books 6/15

"After ten years of closer examination, the Gualg looks now not 
like the efficient economic machine it ws for so long feared to be 
(although it was an economic giant) or even like a carefully crafted 
plot to destroy the intelligentsia (although it did that too). In its 
demography, in its slovenly working practices, in its criminally 
stupid bureaucracy, and in its sullen disregard for human life, it is 
beginning to look, rather, like a microcosm of the Soviet Union 
itself. Which is fitting, for that is what its prisoners always knew it 
to be: in prison camp slang, the world outside the barbed wire was 
not referred to as "freedom", but as the bolshaya zona, the "big 
prison zone", larger and less deadly than the "small zone" of the 
camp, but no more human, and certainly no more humane, 
nonetheless...."


love,
cfa