Monday, November 03, 2003

Don’t assume that bad news is bad and good news is good.

Hear no Evil...Do No Evil...Evilism
All the isms, an English wag once said, are wasms."
What is your own image of evil? Have you ever had an intimate personal encounter with it? Does it have its own taste and smell and configuration? ...
Evil is something that, when you see it, when you know it, it's intimate. It's almost sensual. That is why people who have been tortured know it by instinct. They don't need to be told what it is, and they may have a very hard time putting it into words. ... That's the nature of the phenomenon. It's hard to put into words. But you have to have that intimacy with it, that kind of shoulder-to-shoulder rubbing. ...

· What is your own image of evil? [PBS via Wen of Troppo Fame]
· Afghanistan's Liberation - Now #1 Again in Opium! [Independent ]