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Katagiri’s folly
Read more: Katagiri’s follyJAL Flight 350 crashed into Tokyo Bay and the pilot boarded a rescue boat, calling himself an office worker. More than 30 years ago I became morosely fascinated by the actions of a Japanese pilot named Seigi Katagiri, who on Feb. 9, 1982 was in charge of a Japan Airlines…
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Banshees
Read more: BansheesIcarus: suddenly in peril’s way. Myth and legend have always hinged on peril. Life itself was peril, lorded over by ghouls and angels, brokered by a god or gods who if gracious let peril pass — at least temporarily. Morality arose from peril. Goodness gave meaning to mortality by seeming…
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Completely still
Read more: Completely stillRome is swollen with empty apartments. The shrubbery trimmers always appear toward the end of winter. I hear buzzing noises and see them from my window. Two men, one with a beard, diligently cut back the overgrown hedges and plants tucked into concrete slots that run the length of the…
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The vanishing
Read more: The vanishingOnce, even urban stones grew lizards. There is global warming and lizard vanishing. The first monopolizes news and polemics. The second is about the city of Rome and a boy prowler with small hands and keen memory. Global warming is sold as an incipient manmade apocalypse in the simmering stage.…
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Blurt
Read more: BlurtWhatever you think, say… and send. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are tricky concepts. In absolute terms they refer to the right to speak out in public unfettered. In social terms their meaning was once filtered through such phrases as “All the news that’s fit to print”…
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Après nous
Read more: Après nousISIS is only one of many armed militias in collapsing Libya. The Prague Spring of 1968 is not remembered as a bust but as a brightly lit flare of anti-Communist idealism. Memories of Czech headiness erase images of Russian tanks. Same with North Africa’s Arab Spring of 2011. Food riots-turned…
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