"Alan E. DeBakey" wrote:
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> A little spark can start a prairie fire -- IF THE PRAIRIE IS DRY ENOUGH.
> Carrol
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> Cannot follow. First you talk "manure", then "dry" and "fire" and what not. Too much shrink-wrap, too little meat. Can you translate your images of paririe/spark/dryness/fire in a clearer rendering regarding the "potential revolutionary movements" you opened your mail below with?
Note that the subject line is SpeculationS -- not Speculation; hence eliminating the need for separate paragraphs to cohere. The phrase quoted above is the title of an essay by Mao. And Spark (Iskra) was the name of the paper Lenin established. Taking a metaphor literally makes a new metaphor, does it not?
Carrol