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Monthly Archives February 2006

The Mines

I feel that way still. Scott’s Run has work and vision. It is doing immeasurably better than it ever did. It may not be making the money it did during the boom times but the starvation wages of last years are but a memory. Today men do not work ten and twelve and even fourteen [...]

Posted 24 February 2006 † oldnumberseven § bricolage § non fiction § quotes ‡ Comments (0) °

Nineveh

Robert Graves (1895–1985). Fairies and Fusiliers. 1918.
A PURPLE whale
Proudly sweeps his tail
Towards Nineveh;
Glassy green
Surges between
A mile of roaring sea.
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Posted 16 February 2006 † oldnumberseven § bricolage § poetry § quotes ‡ Comments (0) °

Patriot Act Compromise Clears Way for Senate Vote

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 10, 2006;
Page A01
excerpt:
“If they came with the idea that this is going to stop an investigation on the part of the Senate intelligence committee, they were wrong,” committee Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) told reporters after a closed briefing by two top administration officials. “There were [...]

Posted 10 February 2006 † oldnumberseven § bricolage § non fiction § quotes ‡ Comments (0) °