I'm still here

[FrodeauxB at aol.com]

Sick computers notwithstanding, your Gallic Hobbit is still watching your 
nasty little litcrit cat fights. The following reminded me of Rebekah in a 
Hamlet sort of way:
>From slate:
The NYT goes inside with the canonization of Pol Pot. The 
Cambodian dictator died in 1998, but recently his ghost has 
taken to visiting villagers living in the mountains where he 
spent his last days. Many credit Pol Pot with healing their 
illnesses or--perhaps more importantly--giving them winning 
lotto numbers. These good deeds have not gone unnoticed. Some 
villagers now make offerings at his grave. This behavior 
would seem strange had the NYT not left some clues as to why 
people are reassessing the man responsible for killing more 
than a million of his countrymen in the late 1970s. It seems 
that few Cambodians can connect Pol Pot directly to the Khmer 
Rouge's atrocities. Pol Pot was a mystical figure behind the 
scenes during his four-year reign of terror and subsequent 
guerilla war. He remains a mystical figure in death.


TTFN,

frodeauxb