[lit-ideas] Re: Vote Bush if...
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:24:36 -0700
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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