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Sunday, September 16 2001

Michael Ignatieff : "Yes, we are a community bound together by rules of civility and reflection,

but we do not start from the same history. The truths that a grieving part of this community holds as self-evident are not self-evident to the others whose eyes are dry. We must talk about the most painful things, and we must not fear the sting of truth. There is nothing consoling about this process, but it is what the discipline of learning requires."

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Stephen King : "It wouldn’t hurt to remember that the boys who shot up Columbine High School

planned to finish their day by hijacking a jetliner and flying it into — yes, that’s right — the World Trade Center. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris weren’t exactly rocket scientists, and the guys who did this didn’t have to be either. All you had to be was willing to die..."

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I have taken some tiny solace in the counsel that to paralyze one's life,

in the aftermath of Tuesday's events, is a kind of capitulation that pretty much only makes things worse. Yesterday, we spent the afternoon at The Keg watching the Habs play an intersquad game to raise money for the American Red Cross. They were supposed to play a pre-season game against the Rangers that evening which, for obvious reasons, just wasn't going to happen. It was nice to get out. It was nice, albeit still a bit tense and despite my general aversion to crowds, to be with more than a handful of people. Later on, we drank and danced badly and ate roasted garlic. But, I am having trouble finding a balance between the need to keep on living and the need to give what happened, and all the tangents that surround it, their due reflection. Maybe that is just the lesson of history and one that people in North America, buffered by entire oceans and freakishly large geopolitical territories, have never had to face it until now.

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is starveling

| source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, n. [Starve + -ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. --Shak. | source : web1913 | Starveling \Starve"ling\, a. Hungry; lean; pining with want. | source : wn | starveling n : someone who is starving (or being starved)

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