[lit-ideas] Re: Vote Bush if...

on 10/30/04 6:54 AM, Ursula Stange at Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Leaving the lights on is also a protest against the coming darkness.  I
> can't remember whose quotation this is, but I remember as a student
> researching the effects of the Peace of Versailles and reading, "The
> lights are going out all over Europe" and viscerally feeling the despair
> of those desperate times.


You are thinking of Sir Edward Grey, in 1914.

http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/grey.htm

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon

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