from a televised image perspective, from a cinematic image perspective, there is no way to distinguish between "cool and calm" and totally vacant.
maybe bush supporters simply have to conflate the two because that is how the apparatus to which they owe the form and content of their positions packages them.
vacancy as resoluteness.
it is one of the great cons on the century.
it would make p.t. barnum proud--and you know what barnum thought of the american public.
maybe he was right.
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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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