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There are hints that the devil's domain isn't so unpleasant, it smells of earth and spice, while there's a noticeable stench in heaven. Nonetheless, he wistfully longs for material comforts or transcendent bliss--some new clothes would be nice, he hasn't changed since the Spanish Inquisition. The onset of Nausea puts an end to such thoughts, though, and Sartre hasn't even come along yet (Panizza wrote in 1873). Back to work...
More than ever, Walker still refuses to take himself seriously for very long, and his off-beat humor runs through most of the songs. Some of them don't make much sense, at least when you're sober, like "Public Domain": "Yeah, I ran with the snuff queens in Dallas/Like I ran from Snow White in L.A./Now I've broken all my vows to Demolay." Others, like "Pot Can't Call the Kettle Black" and Willie Nelson's "Pick Up the Tempo," rely less on punch lines than on a gentle self-mocking tone. But Walker gives an authentic...
...Filipinos have a right to work out--and, if need be, to fight out--for them-selves the scope of their domain and the nature of its government," Stanley added...
Richard Nixon's trip to China [March 1] harks of another era when it was common for displaced monarchs to seek aid in enemy countries to regain a stronghold in their old domain. Senator Goldwater's suggestion that Nixon might do well to remain in China is equally anachronistic, since it recalls an age of international struggles with no holds barred. The concepts of limits even with one's worst enemy (e.g., germ and gas warfare) must surely be expanded to include the non-affliction of Nixon on China...
...would have to cross rail lines -and the railroads, anxious to carry all the Western coal, refuse to give their competitors permission to cross their land. The argument is before Congress, which is expected to pass a bill later this year granting the coal pipelines the right of eminent domain...