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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The Case of the Missing Smile

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

In today's online New York Times , Roger Cohen quotes a manifesto—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110726-CohenNYT.jpg

A more complete excerpt—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11B/110726-Excerpt.jpg

Note that Cohen omits the concluding punctuation—
three exclamation points and a smile emoticon—

!!!:-)

(Compare and contrast with the smile of Hannibal Lecter.)

Related material from this  journal on the following day, Flag Day, June 14—

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110612-SquareOfOpposition.jpg

 

Note that the structure of the central flag above
is not unlike that of the skull and crossbones flag.

See also the remark of author Siri Hustvedt (of Norwegian-American
                      background) that was quoted here Sunday.

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