I imagine them flying out from the blazed blasts unscathed, their tiny black-and-red wings flickering like charred debris, so that, looking up, you can no longer fathom the explosion they came from, only a family of butterflies floating in clean, cool air, their wings finally, after so many conflagrations, fireproof.
ABUJA, Nigeria — Suicide bombers crashed an explosives-laden Volkswagen into a crowded bus on Monday as it was parked at a depot in Kano, northern Nigeria's largest city, and officials said at least 20 people were killed, possibly many more, as the conflagration spread to four nearby buses.
There are many who desire vast conflagration on a global scale.
Many European cities suffered the conflagrations and miseries unleashed by Adolf Hitler 70 summers ago, but none more so than Warsaw — the first city he bombed and the last that he destroyed.
(Trump can even, without too many obstacles, initiate a nuclear conflagration).
Rare old manuscripts written on palm leaves and stored in fragrant sandalwood boxes, miniature editions of the Ramayana epic from the children's section, yellowing collections of extinct Tamil-language newspapers -- all were consumed in a roaring conflagration that convinced many Tamils that the Sinhalese were out to annihilate their very identity.
But any attempt to open up a Lebanese "front" in the fighting risks the wider regional conflagration that so many Western diplomats fear.
That conflagration, like too many others that came before and after it, was sparked by " black ram is tupping your white ewe" rumors.
While the United States is calling for a limited punitive strike to punish the Syrian government, Ms. Pillay warned that "a military response or the continued supply of arms risk igniting a regional conflagration, possibly resulting in many more deaths and even more widespread misery".
Surely, though, it will extinguish many sparks that could set up another conflagration; with some luck, it may even yield a lasting peace for the Middle East and, for the United States, one headache less.
True, many South Koreans might die in the conflagration but they would have only themselves to blame - Chang shares the US neocons' loathing for the South's democratically elected presidents Kim Dae Jung and Roh Moo-hyun.
