BE: "list of things to keep alert for, ambush by rolling aluminum"

[alice wellintown]

and, mark, I assume you didn't get the allusion to Morrison, worth reading.


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:54 AM, alice wellintown <
alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jeez, I don't know...but maybe P will have a Vet from Bush Ones Desert
> Storm pushing an aluminum  shopping cart full of onions or aluminum cans.
> Why not? Seems as plausable as anything anyone else here has come up with.
> Aluminum is expensive because of the energy required to process it and so,
> for this reason and others, the commodity is processed where energ is
> cheap, so the US does a ton of recycling, though with the recent energy
> boom in the US...well, and if P, as is his habit, palimsests the ostensible
> setting on to our own...well Alcoa's earnings have set the tone, profits
> up, revenue down, workers out of work, rolling cans is, and has been a big
> business in manhattan, modern day scriveners who prefer not to 9-to-5, and,
> maybe, maybe they need meds, and maybe charity is all they need. All you
> need is the greatest of these is ....charity.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 9:44 AM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I got a vision of a Vet who, after a seeing faces melted and the limbs
>> of soldiers dragged by hounds after the storm in the desert, and after
>> a few weeks in his own waste at Walter Reed, suffering from PTSD, like
>> Shadrack in Morrison's Sula, a vet who starts national suicide day, is
>> wheeling his A&P cart full of cans down Riverside.
>>
>
>
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