A screaming
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 1 17:46:39 CDT 2009
p. pr. & vb. n. {Screaming}.]
I have always read the opening sentence as a human cry particularized by, kinda coterminous with
(via synchronicity; in a non-causal linkage---thinking of synchronicity came later, of course, when the book gives that clue) one V-2 rocket standing for all of them in war, this WW2 war ....which we are going to learn about real soon.
Screaming is the worst human outcry for the most anti-human acts via technology.
TRP has screaming heard under the silicon sands in AtD....
Where else?
Scream \Scream\ (skr[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Screamed}
(skr[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Screaming}.] [Icel. skraema to
scare, terrify; akin to Sw. skr[aum]ma, Dan. skraemme. Cf.
{Screech}.]
To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp
outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to
shriek; to screech.
v., screamed, scream·ing, screams.
v.intr.
1. To utter a long loud piercing cry, as from pain or fear.
2. To make a loud piercing sound: Jet planes screamed through the air.
3. To speak or write in a heated hysterical manner.
4. To have or produce a startling effect: The outlandish costume screamed with clashing colors.
v.tr.
To utter or say in or as if in a screaming voice.
n.
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