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...back up his threat, Israeli troops and tanks moved into Lebanon in a new tactic of continuous patrol. Fearful that the Israeli patrols were the prelude to an invasion, and weary of repeated shellings, 20,000 Lebanese streamed north, away from the border, by donkey, car and truck. Two farming villages, Kfar Chouba and Kfar Hamam, were completely deserted and soon occupied by Arab guerrillas. In nearby Khiam, Houla and Blida, men sent their women and children away and stayed on themselves to protect their homes and possessions...
...English language brings out the best in the Irish. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter. They hurl it at the sky like a paintpot full of rainbows, and then make it chant a dirge for man's fate and man's follies that is as mournful as misty spring rain crying over the fallow earth. Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery...
Love has always been blind, but that does not appease the Iris Murdoch demon. Her 13 novels, written over 16 years, are cruel choreographies for lovers who must play a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in which there is no tail and no donkey. The grotesque charade is heightened by the fact that Murdoch's lovers are usually intellectuals, often philosophers or linguists, who can talk their way to "steamy moral altitudes" while betraying others and mortifying themselves...
Eventually the British troops sealed off the area with barbed wire and guarded a few roads into the Bogside. Inside Bogside, Radio Free Derry began broadcasting and two newspapers were printed. There were Black Panther movies shown on the sides of buildings. free donkey rides and toffee-apples and a music festival with rock groups...
Even Agnew brays the Donkey Serenade...