Words&Dirt

“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding, sustained, to come, don’t spin it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high in the effulgence symbolistic, high, of the ethereal bosom, high, of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, the endlessnessnessness…”

––Ulysses, by James Joyce, pg. 274-5

“I was angry that the Iraqi situation was deflecting attention from the serious domestic crises that we faced, problems that I was anxious to tackle. (Some would argue that deflecting attention away from domestic injustice is one of the major functions of war.) Twenty percent of our children live in poverty, millions of Americans lack decent housing, workers’ standard of living is in free-fall, and we need a major overhaul of our health care system to ensure affordable medical care for everyone. And now we were going to spend months engaged in a war with a two-bit tyrant.”

––Outsider in the White House, by Bernie Sanders and Huck Gutman, pg. 137