"Alison was our bright, shining light and it was cruelly extinguished by yet another crazy person with a gun".
"Alison was our bright, shining light," Andy Parker told Fox News, "and it was cruelly extinguished by yet another crazy person with a gun".
"Enemies of the people" confess because of torture or a desire to protect families (often killed or exiled anyway); but also, sometimes, out of a conviction that conniving in their own deaths will help the Party.Then there is the carnage and heroism of the war and the wartime hopes of a better life, soon extinguished by yet more famine and repressions.
Every time a brief glimmer of hope and happiness emerges through the thicket of absolute fuckery that is day to day living, it get's extinguished by yet more bollocks.
One such photograph shows white children picnicking, a teenage boy holding a toy gun to the head of a baby; another shows a policeman in a cafe in Pretoria smirking into the camera (although even here you may notice that the policeman is still young enough so that the light in his eyes is not yet extinguished).
The reason for the fire, which has been extinguished, is not yet known.
The pro-democracy movement, the so-called Cedar Revolution, is not yet extinguished, despite the assassination of Hariri and his business shenanigans before that, despite the backstairs machinations among political factions since.
With the torch lit by Greek historian Herodotus in the fifth century B.C., carried on by the likes of Captain Cook and his crew in the Pacific, and still not yet extinguished by those traveling through Africa in the early 20th century, a significant portion of European history is dedicated to documenting encounters with the bloodthirsty man-eaters of the far corners of the globe. .
Ten years on, those hopes seem mocked, if not yet wholly extinguished.
Two weeks ago, when the possibility of an alternate, Bushless universe had not yet been extinguished, he encouraged the class to read several predictive studies of the polls.
