January 20, 2004

Kipling again

I was looking through some Kipling and a few of his pieces still hit home. It is a
foul and disgusting thing that in my country href="http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p1/ab
sentminded.html">this
still rings true. (Even if you're antiwar or anti this
war, the military should not enlist people if it can't pay them a decent living
wage or give them the benefits they deserve -- like good health care for anyone
wounded in the course of duty.) It is a sad thing that so many of us including
our "leaders" don't understand href="http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p4/gl
ories.html">this
, also. On the other hand I find it hard to express my
gratitude at having been born in a time when href="http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/ha
rpsong.html">this
situation was not inevitable.

On a
totally different note, I stole this one from href="http://trinity63.diaryland.com/040115_21.html">Trinity63:

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Recommend to me:

1. A movie.

2. A
book.

3. A musical artist, song, or album.

4. An diaryland
user not on my favorites list.

Copy and Paste with your answers
in my comments. If you want, copy and paste the questions in your own
diary.

Feel free to skip the movie rec. I rarely get around to
watching one. I find them slow compared to book, honestly.


Posted by dichroic at January 20, 2004 04:05 PM
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