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...quietly chugged through the network of canals in Poon's canopied, motorized canoe, he watched for the itinerant vendors who sell coffee and other necessities to residents who live in the weathered stilt houses lining the waterways. At times we plowed through clumps of water hyacinths so thick we almost stalled, until Poon cut the motor, lifted the propeller out of the water and drifted through the flower-flecked foliage. This route was a glimpse into the way Bangkok used to be, he told me, before the canals were paved over to make room for cars...
...next rotation to the front is in three days and I'll be up there for about 24 hours, even after that I'm not sure we will have reached Shah-i-Kot," says a junior Afghan commander. He says the firefights have been so intense "the rounds are thick in the air like rain - it's as if there's bullets hitting bullets...
...Edgar Degas’ “The Millinery Shop” (1882-86) are both well-known portraits of materialism. Vincent van Gogh’s “Roses” (1890), painted in the last year of his life while in a mental asylum, introduces thick black outlines and cube-shaped petals into the composition of a vase of wilting roses. Paul Cézanne’s “The Kitchen Table” (1888-90) is a revolutionary still life because Cézanne shows that he has set up the table laden with...
...litter these canvases surge with textured layers of gold, yellow, orange, magenta, crimson and deep purple that seem to leak and drip like rivulets of blood trickling down the painting’s surface. Many of the elemental ship symbols are pushed into the depths of the scene, behind thick blankets of foggy washes, to imply deep space and distance while also signifying depth time where these ships are only ghosts and imagined remembrances of what they once were...
It’s because there’s a conscious effort to not seem so damn Harvard. So we throw on this thick coat of casual indifference, and start acting like we were back in freshman year of high school wearing a Ben Folds Five T-shirt pretending not to be waiting for the schoolbus. We don’t want to be that guy in the Moral Reasoning section who begins his jabberings with some crap like “I thoroughly doubt people have read this book, but I feel like Richard Rorty, in his seminal work...