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Word: seedpod (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrorist, in any case, dreams of such results. Any one of those suitcases on the conveyor belt is the seedpod of our death. The furniture really does conceal monsters. Each rental truck is an apocalypse idling at the curb. Each 747 takes on some unsettling metaphysic of Jonah-eating whale, or Moby Dick. Paranoia renders nature and its objects darkly volitional, satanic. The intent of terrorism, we know, is to break down the boundaries and sane categories of the mind and to make everyone start thinking like a psychotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURAL EVIL, OR MAN-MADE? | 7/29/1996 | See Source »

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