Africa really is the Dark Continent!
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Sat Jan 19 16:36:21 CST 2002
An over-the-top response if ever there was, but very well done!
I love lights at night and the smell of napalm in the morning too.
DM
>From: Arne Herløv Petersen <herlahp at inet.uni2.dk>
>
>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.
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