[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Thing
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:00:42 -0800
Two Hopes
In the era of Napoleon and Wellington, after the pounding of siege
guns, a "forlorn hope" was the group of men who charged up the rubble
and into a breech. It was so called because the chances that those
who volunteered for this task would survive were slim indeed. I was
thinking about these men, and idly watching the professor in front of
me clean his ear with the end of his spectacles, when I heard someone
mention Spenser Weart and O.B. Toon; thus I was semi-alert when
Project Ploughshare came up. P.P. was a proposal to blast harbors in
Alaska's coastline, using thermonuclear bombs. People from a place
called Point Hope opposed the project. I kid you not.
http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=92-P13-00041#feature2
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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