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We Generally Write Best Of What We Ourselves Have Seen.

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.

Since The Attack On The United States On September 11 2001, And The Us Retaliation In Afghanistan And Iraq, There Must Be Few People Who Have Not Felt A Twinge Of Nostalgia For The Cold War.

A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We Call Oil - Was Just An Obscure Commodity; Today It Is Almost As Vital To Human Existence As Water.

Is There Any Purpose To Translating Poetry? A Poem Does Not Contain Information Of Importance, Like A Signpost Or A Warning Notice.