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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

Susan Sontag
1933-2004
USA

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dbowman: That's it? Are you finished and do you feel better? Good. You can go shine your shoes now!

Geez, lighten up fellow! Can't take criticism can you? At least it is on a site you do not HAVE to visit. It is not on thousands of bumper stickers that get in your face as you drive everyday, like all these anti-French ones that sprouted all over in 2003 and are still stuck on their car-bums. Nice little americans can do no wrong... so why are you hated so? All over the world, not just by Europeans. Get introspective and read a good book on the History of America.

Did you read, this weekend, about all these Indian doctors (hundreds) leaving America and very high salaries to go back to India to practice medicine there for 30,000$ a year. Obviously there must be a reason, no? And they are not Europeans either.
EJ
USA

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