November 2008
5 posts
“I should preface any answer I give you about that country by warning you that I...”
– my professor, George Crane. He’s talking about his involvement in the fallout that occurred after this essay was published.
Okay, so the US economy kind of sucks right now, but it’s cool. I read this thing in my book on Japanese history, and I’m pretty sure it’ll help us out if we do as the Japanese did in 1867. Observe:
“In Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and numerous other towns, small good luck charms somehow began raining down from the sky. Authorities in a few cases caught people tossing these from...
“‘Khatami! I don’t believe in Khatami. I believe in Superman.’...”
– an Iranian teacher
From “Shadow Land” by Joe Klein in a 2002 New Yorker issue. 