"At which, as I remember, no man smiled."

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MODEST MOUSE


"Interstate 8"

Spent 18 hours waiting stoned for space
I spent the same 18 hours in the same damn place
I'm on a road shaped like a figure 8
I'm going nowhere, but I'm guaranteed to be late
You go out like a riptide
You know that ball has no sides
You're an angel with an amber halo
Black hair and the devil's pitchfork
Wind-up anger with the endless view of
The ground's colorful patchwork
How have you been? [x2]
How have you? [x2]
I drove around for hours, I drove around for days
I drove around for months and years and never went no place
We're on a pass, we're on pass
I stopped for gas, but where could place be
To pay for gas to drive around
Around the Interstate 8
You go out like a riptide
You know that ball has no sides
You're an angel with an amber halo
Black hair and the devil's pitchfork
Wind-up anger with the endless view of
The ground's colorful patchwork
How have you been? [x2]
How have you? [x2]










http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/N10315455.pdf

Bodleian Libraries

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD


THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE

by

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON


page 1

THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE

If I had not walked aimlessly up town

That evening, and as aimlessly walked back,

My glance had not encountered then, if ever,

The caps and bonnets of a signing group

That loudly fought for souls, and was at first

No more than a familiar spot of sound

And color in a long familiar scene;

And even at that, if an oblique persuasion

Had not withheld me and inveigled me

To pause, I should have passed as others did,

Never to guess that while I might have touched him,

page 2

Fernando Nash was beating a bass drum

And shouting Hallelujah with a fervor

At which, as I remember, no man smiled.

[ break ]

Not having seen him for so many years,

And seeing him now almost as one not there

Save in remembrance or imagination,

I made of his identity, once achieved,

The ruin of a potential world-shaker -

For whom the world, which had for twenty years

Concealed him and reduced him, had not shaken.

Here were the features, and to some degree

The massive aggregate of the whole man,

Where former dominance and authority

Had now disintegrated, lapsed, and shrunken

To an inferior mystery that had yet

The presence in defeat. At a first view,

page 3

He looked a penitent Hercules, none too long

Out of a hospital. But seeing him nearer,

One read where manifest havoc must for years

Have been at work. What havoc, and what work,

I partly guessed; for I had known before

That he had always been, apart from being

All else he was, or rather along with it,

The marked of devils - who must have patiently

And slowly crucified, for subtle sport,

This foiled initiate who had seen and felt

Meanwhile the living fire that mortal doors

For must of us hold hidden. This I believe,

Though some, with more serenity than assurance,

May smile at my belief and wish me well.










http://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/11/world/nato-shifts-focus-of-its-air-attacks-on-bosnian-serbs.html?pagewanted=all

The New York Times


NATO SHIFTS FOCUS OF ITS AIR ATTACKS ON BOSNIAN SERBS

By ERIC SCHMITT

Published: September 11, 1995

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— Frustrated that the Bosnian Serbs continue to defy a Western ultimatum to withdraw their heavy guns from around Sarajevo, NATO today used both cruise missiles and long-range bombs for the first time in this campaign and shifted its sights to Serbian air defenses in northwestern Bosnia.

By expanding the bombing campaign to northwest Bosnia, the base of heavily defended and therefore more dangerous Serbian-held air defense networks, NATO commanders said they were trying to break the will of the recalcitrant Bosnian Serb commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic.

"What we've done in the southeast has not captured Mladic's attention, so we picked a different area where he has a very extensive system of air defenses," said a senior NATO commander. "It's clearly up to Mladic as to what's next. But we haven't seen any positive movement on his part."

Today's raid occurred after a meeting between General Mladic and Lieut. Gen. Bernard Janvier, the commander of United Nations forces in the Balkans.

Until now, much of NATO's firepower has been aimed at about 35 targets in southeast Bosnia. But today the Navy cruiser Normandy fired 13 Tomahawk cruise missiles at about 10 radio relay stations, antennas and other communication sites in the Lisina area near Banja Luka.

United States Air Force F-15E and Navy FA-18 fighter bombers hit the same targets with about a dozen precision-guided bombs, and F-16's attacked with Maverick missiles.

Commanders tonight were awaiting reconnaissance reports to determine if the bombs hit their mark.

After the Tomahawk attacks, Bosnian Serbs said the missiles killed and wounded many civilians and struck water supplies and power plants. NATO officials tonight denied assertions that bombs were aimed at other than military targets. They said they had had no information on possible casualties but that deaths and injuries are always a risk in such attacks.

NATO officials say they chose the self-propelled cruise missiles for the 220-mile flight off the Navy cruiser in the Adriatic, and long-range bombs, because of their accuracy and because they avoid the deadly ring of surface-to-air missiles in and around Banja Luka. Those were the weapons that shot down Capt. Scott O'Grady of the Air Force in June.

The Navy last fired cruise missiles, which cost $1.3 million each and carry a 700-pound warhead, against Iraq's intelligence headquarters in Baghdad in June 1993. The United States launched 288 cruise missiles during the Persian Gulf war. The all-weather missiles navigate by following pre-set terrain features programmed inside the missiles. Or, as in the air strikes today, the missiles can be directed to the targets by orbiting satellites.

Military commanders wanted to launch the cruise missiles on Saturday, but had to wait 24 hours until all NATO political representatives were notified that they would be used.

"What we're trying to do is stand off out of SAM range and take down their integrated air-defense system without exposing our pilots to unnecessary risks," said the senior NATO official.

In addition, a senior Air Force official said tonight that the Pentagon was considering sending F-117 Stealth bombers to Bosnia.

These attacks come just two days after the peace talks in Geneva where the warring parties agreed to a set of principles for a peace agreement. At that American-led session, officials from Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Croatia took the first step toward a peace agreement that would allow a separate Serbian entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina. Further progress in peace talks could depend on whether the Bosnian Serbs accede to the United Nations' demand that they pull back their heavy weapons from Sarajevo.

Senior NATO and American officials said NATO bombers were likely to focus their continuing attacks on ammunition dumps, command posts and bridges in the southeast, but said they wanted to demonstrate their ability to strike with impunity other targets valuable to General Mladic in the northwest.

If that was the idea, the general did not seem to be listening.

Despite the promises from Bosnian Serbs, no weapons have been moved beyond the prescribed 12.5 miles outside Sarajevo, according to political leaders in Pale, United Nations officials and Bosnian Government officials.

"We've seen some movement of troops and vehicles northeast of Sarajevo but we can't confirm what they're doing," said Alexander Ivanko, a United Nations spokesman.

A United Nations official said vehicles were driving from place to place within the weapons exclusion zone, but apparently were not taking weapons out of it. At one point there were 40 trucks moving around, but none of them were carrying or towing away weapons, said the official.

General Mladic, who often operates independently of political leaders, was quoted by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister as saying the weapons would not be moved. The minister, Igor Ivanov, said that General Mladic told him the arms were needed to protect Bosnian Serb troops and civilians near Sarajevo.

In defending their refusal to move those weapons, Bosnian Serb officials, from their headquarters in Pale, accused the United Nations and NATO of trying to shift the balance of power on the ground in favor of Bosnian Government forces.

Mr. Ivanov said that General Mladic told him that in return for a halt in the bombing, he would allow United Nations relief convoys unfettered access to Sarajevo and would discuss opening the airport there.

But the discrepancy between the promises of Bosnian Serb political leaders and General Mladic's refusal to respect those promises has focused renewed attention on the serious schism within the Bosnian Serb leadership.

Many Bosnian Serbs support General Mladic's hard line and consider Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, far too eager to negotiate with the United Nations.

A woman who said she had lived in an apartment building destroyed by a NATO bomb directed at a bridge in the town of Foca said: "Karadzic is garbage. Only Mladic walks with the people."

NATO officials insist that their attacks are being launched in support of United Nations demands to lift the siege of Sarajevo and to protect the other United Nations-designated safe areas from Bosnian Serb heavy weapons, not to side with the Muslim-led Bosnian Government in its three-and-a-half-year war with the Serbs.

The Bosnian Government, however, said it could not have embraced the agreement struck in Geneva on Friday without the reassurances of NATO and, particularly, United States military backing.

That public reliance on Western military enforcement of a peace adds to the worries of Russia, which has condemned the ferocity and breadth of the NATO air attacks against its traditional Slav and Orthodox Serb allies.

Bosnian Serb officials accused the West of failing to honor an agreement they say was reached earlier today at the meeting between General Mladic and General Janvier on the conditions to end the NATO aerial bombardment.

NATO officials scoffed at the Bosnian Serb complaints, and said only one condition needs to be met: Pull back the 300 artillery pieces that now surround Sarajevo.

A NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the missile attacks came after the Mladic-Janvier meeting.

"The meeting had already come and gone and did not go well," the official said. "And at that point we decided to go ahead with the air strikes. Evidently, the Bosnian Serbs did not agree to meet the U.N. conditions."

The Serb defiance was not limited to Sarajevo. Bosnian Serb forces today shelled the United Nations base at the airport in Tuzla, another United Nations-designated safe haven in eastern Bosnia. A United Nations spokesman said 11 artillery shells were fired, slightly injuring one peacekeeper. The Serbian shelling followed a Bosnian Army offensive against Bosnian Serb forces on the strategic Mount Ozren nearby, an attack sure to raise questions about Government promises not to take advantage of NATO protection to attack from safe areas.

NATO jets struck back at Bosnian Serb artillery positions that shelled the Tuzla airport, which is under United Nations auspices.

The Bosnian Serb news agency reported other NATO attacks around Han Pjesak, with its important army headquarters, and on telecommunications sites in Banja Luka. It also asserted that civilian targets were hit in several other cities.

On Saturday, a Bosnian Serb spokesman said, a young brother and sister were killed by a NATO bomb that hit a strategic road in the community of Gorad, near Sarajevo. The assertion could not be verified.

On Monday, United Nations military observers are to begin investigating the shelling on Friday of a hospital in a Serbian-held suburb of Sarajevo. Hospital staff say 10 people were killed and 22 injured by a shell that hit just in front of the hospital.

Bosnian Serb authorities say the shell was one of 39 fired by the United Nations rapid-reaction force at the area around the hospital.

For its part, the United Nations has not denied the assertion, saying only that it regrets the loss of life and hopes it is not responsible. The investigators were to begin work today, but they refused to enter the area until Bosnian Serb military leaders guaranteed their safety.

Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (pg. A9)










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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/Bosnia/updates/sep95/9-10/pm/

CNN


NATO uses cruise missiles on Serb targets

Serbs say they had a deal for a delay

September 10, 1995

Web posted at 10:00 p.m. EDT (0200 GMT)

NAPLES, Italy (CNN) -- Thirteen Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from the USS Normandy in the Adriatic Sea at about 3:00 p.m. EDT Sunday (1900 GMT). They slammed into northwestern Bosnia in an attack aimed at destroying the Bosnian Serbs' ability to shoot down NATO jets.

Surface-to-air missile systems around Banja Luka were targeted, but it could be days before the results are known, according to Capt. Jim Mitchell, a spokesman at the NATO Southern Command in Naples. "We were targeting several of the air defense systems in Banja Luka," Capt. Mitchell told CNN.


"Employment of this weapons system does not represent any change in our mission, nor in the types of targets being attacked."

-- NATO spokesman Capt. Jim Mitchell

"The use of these missiles was requested by NATO in close coordination with the U.N. Commander, because of their known accuracy and all-weather capability," he explained. "In addition, the use minimizes the danger to NATO pilots operating over Bosnia-Herzegovina."

"Its the kind of system you want to reserve for targets of this type, where you can take advantage of not having pilots on board the weapon and you can take advantage of the known high accuracy of the Tomahawk," Mitchell said.

CNN's Peter Arnett, at the Bosnian Serb headquarters in Pale, reported there was a "very, very bitter reaction" from the authorities there (397k AIFF sound).

One Serb official told CNN the attack was "absolutely unnecessary," as an agreement had just been reached between Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic and the U.N. military commander, French Gen. Bernard Janvier, that would lead to the lifting of the Serb siege of Sarajevo.

This official said the Serbs were shocked the attack was launched, since the Bosnian Serb leadership was under the impression that there would be a pause in the air war.

NATO, however, denied there was any agreement.

It's the first time NATO has used cruise missiles in its 'Operation Deliberate Force' against Bosnian Serbs.

At the Pentagon, CNN's Jamie McIntyre reported that the updated version of the Tomahawk, which cost $1.3 million each, carries a 700-pound "shaped warhead" encased in Titanium. It has a GPS (global positioning system), which allows it to find a target in bad weather through the use of satellites and are accurate to up to 10 meters. Cruise missiles can even be programmed to arrive at a target at a precise time and can fly more than 800 miles at subsonic speeds.

The USS Normandy, an Aegis Cruiser, arrived in the Adriatic Saturday, as part of the USS America Battle group.

McIntyre reported the raid against the sites around Banja Luka was planned more than a week ago, but was delayed twice. One postponement was caused by the moving of the targets. Another delay was the result of a dispute over the need for additional political approval to use missiles for the first time in Bosnia.

Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier in the Adriatic, CNN's Jim Clancy reported (366k AIFF sound file) hundreds of crewmen watched in awe as the cruise missiles were launched from the nearby USS Normandy.

Shortly after the launch, F/A-18 fighter attack jets screamed off the deck of the Roosevelt. The Hornets carried a variety of bombs, including 2,000 pound "smart-bombs" which lock on and home in on their targets.

Capt. Mitchell says the timing of the cruise missile attack was decided jointly by General Janvier and NATO Admiral Leighton Smith. "They were closely coordinated on this," Mitchell said. "It was their decision that this was the time to use this weapon system on those targets."

"We have seen no change from the Bosnian Serbs in their intent to comply with United Nations demands that they remove the threat against the safe area of Sarajevo," he added.










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Herbert Hoover

XXXI President of the United States: 1929 - 1933

170 - Message to Dedication Ceremonies for a Monument of Admiral Comte de Grasse at the Trocadero Palace in Paris, France.

May 4, 1931

THE SCROLL of French history is so long, and inscribed with so many illustrious names, that a Frenchman might be permitted a moment of uncertainty in establishing the place of the Comte de Grasse. For an American, however, no such uncertainty can exist. The circumstances of 1781 in which Admiral de Grasse anchored his flagship, the Ville de Paris, at the gate of Chesapeake Bay, were too momentous for us to forget. The energy and independence of his character, moreover, are preserved for us in the letters of General Washington. "The resolutions that you have taken in our circumstances," wrote the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, soon after the arrival from the West Indies of the French fleet, "prove that a great mind knows how to make personal sacrifices to secure an important general good." And when that important general good had been secured, Washington was the first to acknowledge how large a share of the honor pertained to de Grasse. He wrote on the eve of the Admiral's departure: "The triumphant manner in which Your Excellency had maintained the mastery of the American seas, and the glory of the French flag, lead both nations to look to you as the arbiter of the war."

In that lofty place the Admiral remains. The name of de Grasse, and of his famous ship, are woven into the web of American history. I, therefore, consider it an honor, on an occasion so interesting to my fellow countrymen and to myself, to participate in this act of homage to the memory of a great man who belongs alike to France and to the United States.

Note: Ambassador Walter E. Edge read the President's message at unveiling ceremonies, held on Monday, May 4, 1931. A. Kingsley Macomber, of Morristown, N.J., commissioned the monument, and Paul Landowsky, a Polish sculptor, designed it.

In 1781, Admiral Comte de Grasse commanded the French fleet which blocked the British retreat from Yorktown and facilitated the American victory.










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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson, (born Dec. 22, 1869, Head Tide, Maine, U.S.—died April 6, 1935, New York, N.Y.), American poet who is best known for his short dramatic poems concerning the people in a small New England village, Tilbury Town, very much like the Gardiner, Maine, in which he grew up.

After his family suffered financial reverses, Robinson cut short his attendance at Harvard University (1891–93) and returned to Gardiner to stay with his family, whose fortunes were disintegrating. The lives of both his brothers ended in failure and early death, and Robinson’s poetry is much concerned with personal defeat and the tragic complexities of life. Robinson himself endured years of poverty and obscurity before his poetry began to attract notice.

His first book, The Torrent and the Night Before, was privately printed at his own expense. His subsequent collections, The Children of the Night (1897) and The Town Down the River (1910), fared little better, but the publication of The Man Against the Sky (1916) brought him critical acclaim. In these early works his best poetic form was the dramatic lyric, as exemplified in the title poem of The Man Against the Sky, which affirms life’s meaning despite its profoundly dark side. During these years Robinson perfected the poetic form for which he became so well known: a structure based firmly on stanzas, skillful rhyming patterns, and a precise and natural diction, combined with a dramatic examination of the human condition. Among the best poems of this period are “Richard Cory,” “Miniver Cheevy,” “For a Dead Lady,” “Flammonde,” and “Eros Turannos.” Robinson broke with the tradition of late Romanticism and introduced the preoccupations and plain style of naturalism into American poetry. His work attracted the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, who gave him a sinecure at the U.S. Customs House in New York (held from 1905 to 1909).

In the second phase of his career, Robinson wrote longer narrative poems that share the concern of his dramatic lyrics with psychological portraiture. Merlin (1917), the first of three long blank-verse narrative poems based on the King Arthur legends, was followed by Lancelot (1920) and Tristram (1927). Robinson’s Collected Poems appeared in 1921. The Man Who Died Twice (1924) and Amaranth (1934) are perhaps the most often acclaimed of his later narrative poems, though in general these works suffer in comparison to the early dramatic lyrics.



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