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...Mow the bastards down...
...Church joked that he had had an omen: "Lightning struck my house two days ago in Bethesda, and you know they say that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place." John Glenn confessed regret, but smiled: "We finally found out who's going to mow my lawn this weekend...
...they fatalistically accept layoffs. Explains Kiev: "The factory worker has more cynicism, more skepticism about the company than the executive. He feels that the company owes him something. When he is laid off, he rationalizes: 'Those sons of bitches at the company.' And he goes out to mow lawns and fend for himself...
...force," French Philosopher Simone Weil once called the Iliad in what must be regarded as howling Gallic understatement. On Homer's blood-drenched plains of Troy, spears cleave through a man's tongue and shatter his teeth or pierce an eye socket. Swords sever heads. Armies mow down opposing ranks like "a line of reapers formed, who cut a swath/ in barley or wheat." Death spreads across the pages like a pool of ink-"numbing darkness," "unending night." Awesome griefs are recorded. Hair gets torn, ashes smeared. But when a mourning fast is proposed, the answer...
...owner of a propane gas station calls as Isaac cruises by in his turquoise El Dorado. "You gotta give me an autograph for my daughter; she doesn't believe you used to work for me." Isaac signs, then nods to a friend: "I used to wash cars and mow the grass around here...