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Smile on the face of the tiger : Comments

By John Pilger, published 15/6/2009

In President Barack Obama's Cairo speech the killing of 1,300 people in Gaza merited just 17 words.

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Glorfindel.

"Violet Elizabeth fluttered her curling lashes. Her blue eyes swam with tears. Her lips trembled.

"You've made me cry," she said with a heartrending little catch in her voice. The tear-filled eyes and choking voice had melted many a heart in their time, but they didn't melt the Outlaws'.

"Well, get on with it," said William. "Don't take all day over it. Cry, if you're goin' to."

But Violet Elizabeth was too good a tactician to waste her weapons. This one proving useless, she discarded it without further ado. The tears vanished from the blue eyes as suddenly as they had appeared.

"All right," she said in her normal voice, "if you won't let me be a lady knight, I'll thcream an' I'll thcream an' I'll thcream, till I'm thick--an' I can," she ended proudly.

They looked at her, nonplussed. They knew that she could. She had often proved her prowess in that field."

Richmal Crompton (1890-1969) Just William (1922)
Posted by Pericles, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 6:49:47 PM
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Thanks, Pericles, I loved the William books - when I was twelve, I got paid to promote the opening of a new sports store in Wagga, carrying a dead fish around on the end of a bit of string for a few days. I made enough to buy a William book.

But Mr Pilger seems to be making a hell of a lot more out of his dead fish. It must be so easy to sit in one's ergonomic chair and snipe at the world and its easy targets. The point, dear John, is to change it.

Joe Lane
Posted by Loudmouth, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 2:20:20 PM
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