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Thursday, 20 March 2003
Quiet ::
I woke up this morning and turned on the TV for the first time in well over a year. The war has begun. So that’s what Ari Fleischer looks like. It strikes me as a typical bland stream of official government pronouncements, so I stumble over to the kitchen to make coffee. I can’t hear well, running water, grinding coffee beans, but I hear a motif in the words from the television: “The President feels, The President thinks, The President does...” Do I hear a repeated tone of reverence in “President”? Suddenly I begin hearing the word as “emperor.” ...