GR: screaming

Ghetta Life ghetta_outta at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 28 09:05:05 CDT 2005


I still think it's a rocket.  Sirens don't move across the sky.  And you 
could hear a rocket after it's passed over you.

Ghetta

>From: "Erik T. Burns" <erik.burns at dowjones.com>
>
>foax:
>
>about the screaming that comes across the sky in the first line: i had 
>always assumed this was the sound of a rocket, but something someone said 
>here in the last couple of days made it out to be an all-clear siren 
>instead. that was the first time i'd thought of that, and it makes 
>eminent>sense: that's why The Evacuation, while it still proceeds, is all 
>theatre.
>The all clear comes too late to stop them evacuating.
>
>obvious, perhaps (it sure looks obvious to me now) but I warrant most 
>people just think that screaming is a rocket.

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