by kpeavey » Tue 30 Dec 2008, 04:16:48
When I was young, all the kids in the neighborhood would go poke sticks at Mr Caveman. We called him that because he was big, and hairy, lived in a cave and sometimes would eat one of us.
When I was older I found out he was a bear.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever."
-George Orwell, 1984
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twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
-George Yeats