AtD 444-5 Spoiler (?)

[rich]

that quote does remind one of the war(s) against the taliban in afghanistan
today does it not?

rich

On 1/4/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    "Meanwhile, for days, weeks in some places, the
> battles of the Taklamakan War were raging.[...]
> petroleum deposits far underground were attacked [...]
> and great pilars of fire would ascend to the sky.
> From Kashgar to Urumchi, the bazaars were full of
> weapons [...] hardware nobody could identify [...].
> These now fekll into the hands of goat-herders,
> falconers, shamans, to be taken out into  the
> emptiness, disassembled, dtudied, converted to uses
> religious and practical, and eventually to change the
> history of the World-Island ..." (AtD, Pt. III, pp.
> 444-5)
>
>
>
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