(l NP ) great speech Mr Obama

[Thomas Beshear]

Yeah, really. Ballard's outlook was way too rosy. He saw apocalypse not as a 
problem but as an opportunity.

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From: "Monte Davis" <montedavis at verizon.net>
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> Rich recalls Ballard's
>
>> time and space terrorism, mineral and motorway pornography, exhausted
> minds and environments, dead astronauts orbiting a dying world in dead
> capsules, bio-art, sleep, deserted cities of the heart, and an
> abandoned century...
>
> It's the 21st century now, Rich, things are going pear-shaped. You gotta 
> let
> go of all that feel-good nostalgia.
>
> -Monte
>