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peculiar letter.
i am a little perplexed by rice's reaction to it--i wonder if things would have gone the same way had the fact of the letter not been released to the press. you could read it as a curious kind of overture for talks. the response--that the letter does not address the specific questions about the nuclear program--is at once correct technically and beside the point in fact---it makes me wonder what rice et al were expecting--perhaps a more grovelling letter, something more in keeping with the delusions of the Hegemon.
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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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