27 February, 2005 :: 8:42 p.m.
and so it's been a week now...
and so it's been a week now...
"And that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right sort of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back."
(Blake's favorite bit from Fear and Loathing.)
-sigh-
"O Ghost, O Lost, Lost and Gone,
O Ghost, come back again."
~kingdom of fear, HST.
