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Most Orwellian Experience of the Year
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BarkellWH
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RE: Most Orwellian Experience of the... (in reply to guitarbuddha)
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Although it has nothing to do with me, my vote for the most Kafkaesque occurrence this year of which I am aware is the newsworthy trial currently underway in Montana of a woman who married her husband on June 28, and then pushed him off a cliff eight days later where he fell 200 feet to his death. The emerging details suggest that on that fateful day the husband told his new bride he was going kayaking but changed his mind after she told him she had a "surprise" for him. After driving to Glacier National Park, they were at the edge of the cliff and she blindfolded him. It is unclear what he expected, but she then pushed him off the cliff. Talk about Black Widows! Cheers, Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East." --Rudyard Kipling
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Date Dec. 12 2013 20:37:44
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BarkellWH
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RE: Most Orwellian Experience of the... (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
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Bill, when I think of Kafka, I usually think of some sort of bureaucratic nightmare, not a psycho-thriller. You are, of course, correct, Miguel. But I could think of no other event or occurrence that might fit GuitarBuddha's labels of being either Orwellian or Kafkaesque that was half as interesting. Could I redeem myself by calling it "Hitchcockian" (as in "Alfred")? Cheers, Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East." --Rudyard Kipling
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Date Dec. 12 2013 21:50:38
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