They have the capacity to cause trouble disproportionate to their numbers – 300 between all the splinter groups?
Pardon the attempt at a thumbnail historical sketch, but all the splintered perspectives in the Farrow-Allen story make you reach for the largest perspective possible, like fleeing rising water and rushing debris for higher ground.
The music was, it seemed, more premeditated in which parameter was varied at any moment — meditation or swing, openness or density, lyricism or hustle — but all the splintered elements cohered.
In the Sixties people linked arms and sang songs, now we have anarchist groups and the Black Panthers and agitators from all the splinter groups throwing things at us," said Lenthe.
In cases where that assumption fails and the existence is less than worth having – in cases where the new person would be so miserable that it would have been better for that person never to have existed at all – the strategy splinters.
The bullet went straight through and all these splinters flew out the other side.
He said, "I can still hear the footsteps on those wooden boards, with all those splinters — Ron Delany, Eamonn Coghlan in the Wanamaker Mile".
The upcoming elections offer all these splintered parties an opportunity to coalesce around a leader (without the absurdity of rotating the premiership a la Livni and Herzog) and once and for all defeat the chauvinistic and blind ideologues who are leading the country toward the abyss.
It is he, after all, who gets the splinter of ice in his eye, like the boy in the fairytale.
Through it all, the players haven't splintered.
