The Writer's Life 4/21 - Curious

“Curiouser and curiouser,” said Alice during her sojourn in Wonderland. That often applies to the doings of this mad world. American warships are headed to Yemen to block weapons shipments from Iran to its allies, which are trying to reverse a once promising move toward representative government. These are the same Iranians our leaders are currently attempting to engage in a deal to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. A line from an editorial in today’s NY Post perfectly sums up my thoughts on the subject: “The Iranians will pretend they’re not building nukes, and President Obama will pretend he’s stopping them.” Short of an invasion, which would cost thousands of lives, I don’t believe Iran can be prevented from acquiring the bomb. Their facilities are too entrenched. The only reasonable course of action seems a simple statement: “Try anything and there will be dire consequences.” Unfortunately, this may lead to the sacrifice of Israel, whose annihilation the mad Mullahs may endorse, despite the certainty of the retaliation of Israeli warplanes loaded with weapons of mass destruction. Sitting down and negotiating with a known sponsor of terror is curious, only something liberal politicians would hatch.


While I was working on the reincarnation of Close to the Edge, I was discouraged by the many spelling errors I encountered. Many involved double letters such as in "traveling." I would have sworn it carried to l's. My ego received a bit of salve today as, while reading a novel by a Brit, I realized he spelled traveling with two l's. I got to wondering if all such errors I found in Edge were the result of my reading so many UK classics back in the day. The difference is not surprising, given the way they spell "labour" and "colour." I guess they use a different Spell-check than we in the States do.


On Sunday an elderly woman donated ten works in Russian, so I knew today's session of the floating book shop would be fruitful, especially after yesterday's rainout. Although all but one sold, they didn't reap a full reward. I've let this one guy have books for 50 cents, knowing some days he would be one of the few buyers. He took eight of the most recent batch and two holdovers. My half thanks. And full thanks to Mikhail, who bought another, and who was carrying flowers for his wife, whose birthday it is; and to the lovely young mom who bought a cook book.
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