Quotation du jour -- Sat. 6-30-07

"For all the difficulties, the instinctive coutermeasures, we go on watching closely, trying to read a face, trying to measure intentions. Friend or foe? It's an ancient preoccupation. And even if, down through the generations, we are only right slightly more than half the time, it's still worth doing. More than ever now, on the edge of war, when the country still imagines it can call back this deed before it's too late...."
-- Ian McEwan, Saturday, Doubleday, 2005

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