Africa really is the Dark Continent!

[Arne Herl�v Petersen]

The Great Quail wrote:
> 

> 
> I for one find the composite image lovely. Lights make things
> beautiful -- Christmas trees, sunsets, artillery exchanges, Grateful
> Dead shows, the unscrolling land seen from an airplane at night.


Ah yes, the esthetic pleasure of an artillery exchange, viewed as a
lightshow. The tachistic painting effect of small pieces of Afghan
schoolchildren clinging to offwhite walls in a faraway village after
another visit by our Nato allies. Seen from the plexiglass of a bomber
plane the rows of small eruptions are beauty itself. Let us not sully
our hands with joyless politics, when we can enjoy pure esthetic
pleasures with the Great Quail. 
A theme for a JG Ballard story: World Trade Center seen as the mating of
dragonflies in a beehive.