Pablo Picasso Gertrude Stein painting
Tamara de Lempicka Portrait of Madame painting
That so few soldiers in the coalition died somehow seemed to Americans a vindication. It was even a return of their shining self, of Buffalo Bill, who (e. e cummings wrote) could “ride a watersmooth-silver stallion and break one two three four five pigeons just like that.” The unspoken text was this: the nation had recovered its immunity, its divine favor, or anyway its gift for doing things right. The victory was as satisfying as anything Americans have done together since landing on the moon.Would it be seemly to have a moment of silence for the Iraqi corpses?It is not inconsequential to kill 100,000 people. That much life suddenly and violently extinguished must leave a ragged hole somewhere in the universe. One looks for special effects of a metaphysical kind to attend so much d
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