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you would think that everything about this story would be a deep embarrassment to bush. that the conversation is even possible should be an embarrassment. i am agnostic on the matter of whether it did or did not occur in fact--but that such a conversation is plausible, that questions of sending a country to war are being debated, even hypothetically, across the question of messages from some god is amazing.
if bush's "resoluteness" is a function of his getting messages from god, then what good is it? why and for whom does this kind of information function as reassuring?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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