clara pandy
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"Now we are all in Gernika"
"(... ) I see a tower of dust, first outpost of Dust's empire, boiling up to take its place. Around me in the cough and stumble, personal alarms are going off, an awful morning chorus.
Up ahead, through smoke, hauling somebody from the wreckage there's a fireman, but not one of ours. Wrong uniform. That big brass hat, that accent. 'I'm all right, mate. There'll be blighters needin' worse 'elp, further on.'
He's right. Beyond his rubble of red brick are fragments of a Baghdad mosque, the debris of a japanese pavilion, smoldering Dresden embers. Voices, shouting through the choking pail in English, German, Arabic and Spanish.
I call out 'Where are we?' and a woman turns towards me from the fog and smiling past her tears she says 'we are in Guernica", and in my heart I know that this is true.
Guernica, where the sky fell first, this landscape black and gray with dust. Terrified horses and the wail of mothers. From the settling billows they step out to gather round me, to embrace me, kiss my brow and murmur soothing words. 'Don't cry, my friend. Don't cry. We're all together now.'
'Now we are all in Guernica' "
I was quite impressed the first time I read that as reproduced in CBA #25. What a mighty piece of writing.
It's been coming to my head all through the last week.
Sorry, terribly off-topic, I know... but I hope you'll understand.
Take care.
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17/3/04, 15:49
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Re: "Now we are all in Gernika"
My heartfelt sympathy to you and everyone.
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Guernica
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Swedish Nightingale wrote:
My heartfelt sympathy to you and everyone.
The same here, also.
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Re: "Now we are all in Gernika"
The terrorist bombing was a barbarous act. Zapatero's speach after the election was, in my opinion, precipitated, and unfortunate. I think it sent out a message saying that terrorists could kill people and successfully obtain what they want.
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Re: "Now we are all in Gernika"
I can certainly sympathize as twenty plus years ago my mother was very nearly caught in an IRA bomb blast in London.This event formed my opinion that you can never negotiate or compromise with terrorist scum.As lets be honest most terrorists demands require that the governments they are fighting against give into their demands without giving anything in return.
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clara pandy
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Re: "Now we are all in Gernika"
Tanks to everyone for the simpathy.
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The terrorist bombing was a barbarous act. Zapatero's speach after the election was, in my opinion, precipitated, and unfortunate.
I would like to clear this point. The position of the PSOE against the USA war on Irak was in their programme long before the elections (and the bombings), in fact, it was in the programme of any major political party in Spain, excepting the Partido Popular.
Zapatero is keeping the troops in Irak till the end of june, respecting the compromises signed by our still Prime Minister Mr. Aznar. After that date Mr. Zapatero won't keep the troops without an agreement with the United Nations, which I think is a wise measure.
I'm not a Zapatero voter but, unlike the arrogant Mr. Aznar, at least he seems a man able to talk with other people and political parties, a man capable of consensus.
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Dear Clara: heartfelt sympathies to you. No words can restore life to those who died or banish the pains of those who suffered or endured. It's time to stop all Guernicas.
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