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CLEAN TECHNOLOGY GETS AWAY
Kevin Rudd is a big supporter of Suntech Power Holdings founder Zhengrong Shi, and last year mentioned how sad he was that the solar billionaire had based his business overseas:
That great Chinese entrepreneur in the solar industry business, Mr Shi, Zhengrong Shi and his decision, that he couldn’t actually sustain his business in Australia, had to invest in China instead.
Peter Garrett, now minister for the environment, would also have preferred that Suntech and Zhengrong Shi be based in Australia:
Not only has investment in clean technology left our shores, so has a critical mass of scientific and entrepreneurial know-how. Leading experts like Dr Zhengrong Shi and David Mills have gone to China and the United States respectively to create new wealth and deliver climate change solutions.
Australia may have dodged a bullet. The Washington Post, reporting from Gaolong, China, reveals the extent to which Zhengrong Shi’s investment in clean technology is helping locals:
The first time Li Gengxuan saw the dump trucks from the nearby factory pull into his village, he couldn’t believe what happened. Stopping between the cornfields and the primary school playground, the workers dumped buckets of bubbling white liquid onto the ground. Then they turned around and drove right back through the gates of their compound without a word.
This ritual has been going on almost every day for nine months, Li and other villagers said.
In China, a country buckling with the breakneck pace of its industrial growth, such stories of environmental pollution are not uncommon. But the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co., here in the central plains of Henan Province near the Yellow River, stands out for one reason: It’s a green energy company, producing polysilicon destined for solar energy panels sold around the world. But the byproduct of polysilicon production—silicon tetrachloride—is a highly toxic substance that poses environmental hazards.
And the company’s connection to Suntech:
Last year, the Luoyang Zhonggui factory was estimated to have produced less than 300 tons of polysilicon, but it aims to increase that tenfold this year—making it China’s largest operating plant. It is a key supplier to Suntech Power Holdings, a solar panel company whose founder Shi Zhengrong recently topped the list of the richest people in China.
Rudd and Garrett would have us believe that Zhengrong invested overseas because Australia shuns solar cleanliness. But there are other reasons why a solar panel maker might choose China. According to polysilicon research firm executive Shi Jun:
Chinese companies are saving millions of dollars by not installing pollution recovery ... if environmental protection technology is used, the cost to produce one ton [of polysilicon] is approximately $84,500. But Chinese companies are making it at $21,000 to $56,000 a ton.
Says Jun of these companies’ environmental safeguards: “If this happened in the United States, you’d probably be arrested.”
(Via Alan R.M. Jones)
UPDATE. A subsequent WP headline:
Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say
Well, you ain’t gonna get that from solar panels, whether they’re produced in China or anywhere else:
Polysilicon companies in the developed world recycle the compound, putting it back into the production process. But the high investment costs and time, not to mention the enormous energy consumption required for heating the substance to more than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit ...
UPDATE II. Zhengrong Shi is an Operating Thetan follower of Al Gore:
The message that I tried to send the staff is our responsibility with the product we produce is to save the environment, to save the earth, so we should feel proud of what we are doing ...
Because this global warming issue is really a severe problem. You know, human beings really face a challenge to survive on this planet if we don’t control what we’re doing now. But average people, they don’t understand this.
They might understand silicon tetrachloride being dumped in their village.
UPDATE III. Hmmm:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had a consultancy business that turned over nearly $130,000 during his first three years in Parliament.
The consultancy, which he worked at during the run-up to his parliamentary career, helped Australian businesses wanting to set up in China.
There are but two reasons to set up manufacturing operations in mainland China: a total lack of environmental regulation, and (effectively) slave labor.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 10 at 12:59 AM • permalink#3
The residents of the former Warsaw Pact would grimly agree.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 10 at 01:01 AM • permalinkCommenting on Suntech’s silicon supply, Dr. Shi said, “We successfully
developed a strong silicon supply pipeline of 530MW for 2008. Suntech’s
silicon outlook for 2009 is even more promising. Due to the silicon supply
contracts we signed in the fourth quarter with Asia Silicon (Qinghai), Nitol
Solar, Renesola and a Korean conglomerate, we believe that our silicon costs
will fall more than twice as fast as our projections of our average sales
prices in 2009. We are confident that this will enable Suntech to expand
production and improve profitability in 2009.”From the company website. He’s crowing about falling silicon production costs. I wonder how long this will stay up on the site.
On the plus side, at least the toxic waste wasn’t transported in plastic bags.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 10 at 01:03 AM • permalinkOh, one more reason for manufacturing in China: the yuan is held artificially low by the government to keep Chinese exports cheap.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 10 at 01:04 AM • permalinkIs this “bubbling white liquid” called KRudd?
If the ALP happened in the United States, they’d probably be arrested.
#1 irony or silicony tetrachloridey?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 10 at 01:05 AM • permalink#6 IT
Yes, there is that. So apologists for Beijing might have something to tout.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 10 at 01:05 AM • permalinkIn his pre-election debate with John Howard, Rudd stood there with a straight face and declared the following:
But you know the reason that China uses internationally as to why they are not acting, internationally to bring down their greenhouse gas emissions? The reason they give is this: the developed countries like Australia and the United States have not signed Kyoto, have not ratified Kyoto, and haven’t accepted binding targets themselves. There is a huge practical, quite apart from moral, responsibility, on us and the Americans to leverage the Chinese into action on this.
In other words, do the right thing and the Chinese will follow you? Riiight.
#6- That’s ‘cos they couldn’t get them for nix. Seeing as the Minister for Head Defoliation is planning a similar measure, does this mean we’ll follow the Chinks lead in reform of waste disposal regulation, thus boosting productivity? If so, I’m looking for startup funds for a nuclear waste/CFCL/dioxin/PCB and asbestos disposal company- there’s shitloads of national parks and green spaces lying idle, let’s put ‘em to use, and we might even manage to generate some interesting and valuable critters and plants as a sideline. Who says they’res no benefit in mixing controlled and free markets? If you control the Naderites, you’re free to fucking coin it in.
BTW- this sort of ironic idiocy is becoming chronic and endemic; while out for a ride* this afternoon I passed a property with two street frontages, a pool and tennis court and about a 200 square building bristling with a/c cooling towers and satellite recievers- festooned on every side with posters for the local Greens candidate in the upcoming local election. Amazing it escapes the perception of people such as these that if the party they promote ever gained power at best their comfortable lifestyle would end- if the more extreme elements took over they’d be recycled to Gaiea through a solar-powered woodchipper. Fuckwits- hope the earth leakage fails when they power back up after Earth Hour, the Gaggio shorts out and the entire edifice increases their carbon footprint substantially by being converted by heat to CO2 in fifteen minutes flat. (BTW- love the idea from the schoolmunchkin to coerce part-time employers such as Big W to join the fun of Earth Hour- talk about creative shoplifting techniques).
*Yes, I know, I was on a bloody pushbike, but the ADF hasn’t extended it’s diversity appreciation to having blobs on battlefields yet, but it may have some benefits- given the number of times I’ve read items about felonious fatsos being repeatedly plugged by the plod and surviving, it’s save a bundle on kevlar if troops on point were more Michael Moore and less Michael Jordan.Greens get blinded by their own prejudices and never see the bigger picture.
One example in rural Albury, NSW, is a request by the city council to rinse out milk cartons and other recyclables before throwing them into the bin. The council also urges people not to wash food stuffs down the drains because it raises the phosphorus levels in waste water, causing algal booms. The council also tells people not to use water unnecessarily and to try to save every drop. If washing garbage isn’t unnecessary, I don’t know what is.
Asking the council to reconcile these conflicting requests results in blank stares.
#13 Nic “Remember, it’s all the fault of Australians and Americans”. What a slander!
It’s all the Americans. Australians are naturally much more quaint and loveable, like wombats. Sure, we’re stupid and easily led, but you wouldn’t want to kill us… right bro?
As for environmental crime in China. Tough question. I haven’t seen any suggestions so far about how to fix it. Hmmmm.
I’d go for the tried and true. Building better connections between NGOs here and in China, and demonstrating that cleaner production is both life enhancing and economically efficient. Thus freeing the Adam Smith and the dead hand of (enlightened) self interest.
#16 - Aye Carumba! The legends were true! Taxi drivers really do have all the answers.
If you feel strongly about this matter, perhaps you and your troops could organise a quaint little protest in Tianamen Square?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 10 at 01:53 AM • permalink#16 Yes!
The best way to save the planet is to stop Australians from transporting their shopping in plastic bags whilst at the same time, hectoring them to first wash and the separate their refuse. That’ll show Gaia.
Meanwhile your mates on the Left are perpetuating myths that China is a ‘victim’ and that it imposes import restrictions on US vehicles because the don’t meet still Chinese pollution requirements. Meanwhile no one even in China trusts Chinese food products, fake eggs, fake coke, fake everything.
You go Bryla, you go girl. work through your NGO’s.
16- Maybe the Chinese chakra’d be set right if they changed from being communists to being commune-ists, eh Bry?
BTW- how do you reconcile charging a set fare for trips in your cab, old son? Doesen’t the i Ching state that a reward will be dispensed in relation to the deed performed, yet charging off the meter means the same return for a ratshit or excellent performance- won’t this imbalance cause ruction?
Found this for people looking for green groups to study. A mover and shaker in
BELCHBELP is Lizette Salmon, a bored, rich doctor’s wife (what ever happened to the pool cleaning man?). Haven’t gone through the site other than to note it reads like a bunch of eight-year-olds playing in a cubby house.#15 Contrail, I’m with you there. I never understood the sense in rinsing out dogfood and other cans. They’re melted down, aren’t they? Surely that will sterilize them?
Unless you talk with Rosie O’Dipshit, who says “Fire can’t melt steel.”
#16 Bryla, there are already solutions how to fix it, but that would
cost him moreprice him out of the market and he’s not prepared to do it - because he doesn’t have to in China.#17 Pickles, explains everything, really.
Oh shoosh. I won’t hear a bad word said about Rudd.
Posted by Abu Chowdah on 2008 03 10 at 02:14 AM • permalink#19 Nic “Meanwhile your mates on the Left”.. urghh mate, they’re not my mates mate. You can’t hold me responsible for anything said or done by others. Mate.
#23 Kae “there are already solutions how to fix it, but that would cost him more price him out of the market and he’s not prepared to do it - because he doesn’t have to in China” Sooner or later he does have to, or move on. The question surely is how to make that sooner rather than later.
Anyone here have a better idea than the combination of NGOs and free markets?
I’m rolling around on the floor laughing, Bryla.
Sooner or later he does have to, or move on.
You’re such a joker. And NGOs are going to make him.
China couldn’t give a flying fuck about it’s people. Kevvie loves China. There won’t be any disdain there. What pressure are NGOs going to bring to bear? You talk like you have the answers. Go for it.
Do you really think that if Australia was a socialist country we’d have all the protection that we have?
26; A combination of angry villagers and rifles, followed by a Constitution and Bill of Rights…naaaah that shit sucks.
Posted by dean martin on 2008 03 10 at 02:52 AM • permalinkI am new to this. But is Bryla, the in-between Age columns person? Seems to follow the same lines as the Ageists.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 10 at 02:57 AM • permalinkI drove through this last November. It was a bright yellow gas, later thought to be Nitric Acid, and I don’t think the truck had the Hazardous Materials diamonds on it. (I couldn’t see them.) Trust me, it took your breath away (and was mesmerising, wafting over the truck).
#14 Habib; you’ve driven past my place; the reason for the green signs is that I was sick of shooting the mongrels when they came around picketing the joint. Now I get invitations to green soirees where impressionable young ladies are prone to disrobe; I know it smacks of hypocrisy but what can you do?
26, yeah maybe get the chinese unions to rise up and…oh that’s right.
they already shot those guys.
you people. Howard’s a facist dictator but the Chinese ruling junta are just misunderstood when they execute, intimidate and impose.
go try your plane wrecking protests there you cowardly fat hippy fuck and see how you go. or just keep driving that freedom cab, man…you’re really making difference.
Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 03 10 at 03:14 AM • permalinkAndrew Bolt reports on
abc.net.au report that:Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett will not rule out a nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 10 at 03:29 AM • permalink#24 Say something bad about Dear Leader Lu Kewen Krudd?...not for all the silicon tetrachloride in China!
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2008 03 10 at 03:29 AM • permalink#38 - Yep. Try skipping second dinner and have a shave, you hairy galoot.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 10 at 03:29 AM • permalinkPrediction - China will stop paying lip service to greenhouse gas reductions as soon as the Olympics are out of the way. China’s leaders would suffer a huge loss of face if some of those sanctimonious European nations withdrew teams in protest at China’s accelerating emissions. So it keeps talking like it will be part of post-Kyoto CO2 cuts.
With the games out of the way, China can drop this pretence and hit the economic accelerator with both feet. Look out for Chinese scientists very publicly disputing the IPCC science. And look out for an uncomfortable K Rudd trying to simultanenously kiss Chinese arse and suck green cock.
#38- Actually we do, Peace Boy- it’s called democracy, property rights and rule of law.
If the locals where the dumping is taking place actually owned the dirt and their ownership and amenity of that property was enforced by law, they could sue the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co back to the Han dynasty, or lease or sell their property to the buggers for a substantial fee.
Instead they’re little more than feudal peons, and if they arc up the ruling goons will stifle their dissent with a T72; ain’t the glorious peoples revolution jus’ wunnerful?
Bored with wombats, Bryla is now fermenting tropical fruits in the back of his cab.
Intoxicated from opening the boot regularly to access the baggage for his Chinese passengers he feels the tug to blog.
Brimful of confidence after talking to the Chinese in words of one or two syllables Bryla fires off his usual patty cake waffle as a China expert and even mentions Adam Smith.
Bloggers of far higher sensibilities get their jollies and return fire with highly toxic barbs. Everyone feels great.
Bryla squirms with delight and has another tug. These are his best friends.
#38 Yes, you - being a victorious fighter in the campaign against Darth Howard - could focus your energies on calling for an immediate and complete trading halt with China until such time as appropriate environmental controls are put in place.
I mean, you DO want to protect the environment don’t you?
Posted by anonymous guest on 2008 03 10 at 03:54 AM • permalink#46- Don’t know about him tiring of wombats, it appears he’s off to pester Pine Gap on Anzac Day, in the company of the mammoth marsupial Mulhearn.
#17
I wonder if Baldy’s lamented and fled entrepreneurial know-how has led to any life enhancing.Jesus, mehaul, and you thought I was him.
“Demonstrating”? Long live the freedom to not have stuff demonstrated to you..Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 10 at 04:19 AM • permalinkSpeaking of the Devine Ms M, considering her leanings, the fact that she’s a (dirty) blonde and appears to have an ample shirtful, how come she hasn’t hooked up with Hicksie?
I also wonder what Mrs Moneybags back in Cairns thinks about Bry going on a saucy camping trip with such a sweetie?
#53 - Hicksie may be a bloated, goat fucking, mullet sporting bogan from Adelaide who’d stick his dick in a luke warm chiko roll, but he’s still got standards.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 10 at 04:33 AM • permalinkSuntech’s Public Relations
Department Issues a Statement:Many wonders can be traced
To the place where Suntech’s based;
Cats can swim and dogs can talk,
Rodents fly and land sharks walk.What a loss! Your mutant zoo
Could have had a kangaroo
Quoting Keats and eating glass,
Passing luminescent gas.Please ignore those nasty rumors:
Farmers with enormous tumors,
Children without genitalia…
You’re just envious, Australia!#57- I draw your attention to the last paragraph of this earlier post- she could have a couple of TOWs and a Hellfire wedged in her arse, and if they went off anyone within range would pass it off as the felafel at lunch-time.
“If this happened in the United States, you’d probably be arrested.”
That’s if you survived being shot by the angry land owner.
#25 - as long as he keeps swiping beer vouchers off the coffin dodgers and mongos
I guess that would turn Kev into “Mong the Merciless”?
Posted by mr creosote on 2008 03 10 at 05:36 AM • permalinkGotta say though that an old fart who can come up with a line like this:- “I’m not going to wear this. I’m not going to let a popinjay of a - I could go worse than that - but I’m not going to let a bloke who tucks a little white hanky up his sleeve do this.” is worth a sling of a couple of grand.
What’s he need with a hanky when he’s got a pinky though?A serviette?
In China, a country buckling with the breakneck pace of its industrial growth, such stories of environmental pollution are not uncommon. But the Luoyang Zhonggui High-Technology Co., here in the central plains of Henan Province near the Yellow River ...
(wronwright consults his three Time-Life archaelogy books he bought at the Friends of the Cincinnati Library book sale for $2 each)
It’s a sad thing that he chose this location for his factory. The Yellow River was one of four river areas where farming and civilization began many thousands of years ago. The others were ...
(wronwright flips quickly through book on First Farmers)
... Nile, Tigris/Euphrates, and Indus.
(wronwright sits back with a smug smile, satisified that other readers are likely comparing his knowledge to MentalFloss’s. Maybe he will follow this with a poem, to steal some of lyle’s admirers)
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 10 at 06:41 AM • permalink#73 Wronwright. Go nowhere. You, Floss and Paco and several others are all Americanos.
And you’re all individually illuminating, mixing humour with the high brow.
It would be a much lesser blog without you all.
But then we do have whatsisname… you know who I mean.
vroom, vroom welcome to Cairns Ms Tai Chi.
Boy, there’s always something, isn’t there?
With all the engineering expertise around you’d think they could come up with some clean-livin’ manufacturin’ but no!
Just waaaay too hard…*sigh*
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 10 at 08:49 AM • permalink#45, why not kidnap a Fairfax columnist and slip a substitute column (written by you)into their slot?
You’d have people rubbing their eyes in ecstasy and amazement at the sudden improvement in metaphorical usage, not to mention contumely finally expressed in a rip-roaringly engaging fashion - for a change.
Students would have to tattoo it onto their left arms and show it to tram inspectors to allow them on public transport. It would be great!
Hmmm, I realise I’ve phrased the above query in a suspiciously Freudian manner.
(Pause)
Oh, well.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 10 at 09:00 AM • permalinkIf Bryla thinks that NGOs will convince the Chinese government to stop polluting, then leave him be; this is merely a sign that he’s retreating further and further into his fantasy world.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 10 at 09:20 AM • permalink#75 kae -
Wron, you’re brillaint. Have you been under the tutelage of Mental Floss?
Um, why no kae. It’s just my natural intelligence. It’s a curse really.
(wronwright works hard to appear humble, yet displays his three archaelogy books with the front covers appearing outwards, making sure everyone sees them)
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 10 at 09:48 AM • permalinkWhere is the Indus? Um, well, that’s a good question. A very good question.
(wronwright frantically thumbs through archaeology books, which are absolutely of no help whatsoever due to maps that list old kingdoms, not current countries)
You asked where is the Indus? By that you mean the Indus River. Not some other Indus.
(damn it, not one indication of where that damn river is. wronwright sees the Indus on a land mass that is big, and yet pointy at the end. And yet, he’s clueless. Is that Thailand?)
Of course, if you were to ask where is the Yellow River, I would naturally say it’s in
ThailandChina.(why don’t they place current country names and boundaries on these maps? I mean to say, Elam! There is no Elam anymore. Mitanni. Hurrites. That’s of no help.)
Or let’s say the Nile. The Nile, as I can certainly attest, is in
ThailandEgypt. But, of course, the Indus is NOT in Thailand, I mean Egypt.(wronwright checks the publication dates of his reference books. 1973! Hell, that might have been the names of those countries back then. But where is the Indus now? wronwright wonders what Mentalfloss’s phone number is?)
So, to conclude what we’ve concluded up to now, the Yellow River is in China, the Nile is in Egypt, and neither of them are in Thailand. And same goes for the Indus. I believe.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 10 at 11:20 AM • permalinkHmmmmm
What’s really appalling?
The vast lake building up behind the Three Gorges Dam in China is so polluted, and becoming more polluted by the day, that it’s a liquid toxic waste dump.
Posted by memomachine on 2008 03 10 at 11:36 AM • permalinkWhat I meant to say is the Nile is in Pakistan. And possibly the Yellow River too.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 10 at 11:49 AM • permalink#90
The vast lake building up behind the Three Gorges Dam in China is so polluted, and becoming more polluted by the day, that it’s a liquid toxic waste dump.
Ah, no matter. It’ll go through the hydro-electric generators just as well…
China is the most toxic place on Earth, but all I hear is blame being placed on American companies who buy from the Chinese. The Communist junta running the country never come under criticism from the Left.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 10 at 12:19 PM • permalinkBryla was serious with that NGO comment? Hilarious.
The only suggestion I would have is to hit China in the pocketbook - but I don’t see the democracies ending trade with China just so they start treating their people better.
The Chinese government is not answerable to their people, so they are not answerable to anyone in the world. Without that accountability, there is no engine to force reforms for labor and the environment. And I am not talking about carbon and all that b.s., I mean real environmental issues - the poisoning of the air and water.So, our CO2 has to be zero. Does that include breathing? I guess so: zero is zero, after all.
So, I strongly invite these noble scientists to lead by example.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2008 03 10 at 01:34 PM • permalinkInsensitive Tiger 55:
Hicksie may be a bloated, goat fucking, mullet sporting bogan from Adelaide who’d stick his dick in a luke warm chiko roll, but he’s still got standards.
Hey! Keeping these goats pregnant is a big job! Y’gonna begrudge me a little bit of temp-labor exploitation?
Ens.Sincerity 85:
(wronwright works hard to appear humble…)
Snort! As he could ever hope to surpass the superlative supremacy of the **** humility of PACO**** !!!! Let’s all pause, doff our hats, and quietly contemplate the magnificence that is the **** humility of PACO**** !!!!
Right then, back to work.Posted by formerly Huck Foley on 2008 03 10 at 01:35 PM • permalink“So, our CO2 has to be zero. Does that include breathing? I guess so: zero is zero, after all.
So, I strongly invite these noble scientists to lead by example.”
Seriously, they might as well start signing the contracts to set up the extermination camps now. That’s the only way you’re going to get carbon near zero - the wholesale extermination of the human race. I know that idea appeals to many in the green movement but personally, I think there are smarter and more ethical alternatives.
Stoop Davy Dave formerly,
Are you kidding? paco has nothing—NOTHING!—on my humility. My humility is honed to a Cathar monk’s luster. The Amish stop me with their black buggies blocking the gravel roadway to ask me how I affect such a modest demeanor.
Oh sure, maybe compared to you paco shows a grand gesture of humility. But he’s not in my league bucko. NOT IN MY LEAGUE I say.
Now out of my way so I can continue my downturn look of modesty.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 10 at 02:16 PM • permalinkThere isn’t enough there yet for them to steal.
That’s because the Chinese government stole it first.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 10 at 02:57 PM • permalinkRudd “helped Australian businesses wanting to set up in China”.
Correctly it reads: “connected Australian businesses with corrupt Chinese officials”.Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2008 03 10 at 06:19 PM • permalink“The consultancy, which he worked at during the run-up to his parliamentary career, helped Australian businesses wanting to set up in China.”
Politicians should not work as consultants, at least until they quit politics. If it was a Coalition member that did this, there would be howls of outrage and accusations of corruption.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 10 at 07:09 PM • permalinkYou forget the progressive perspective: It’s Not Pollution If It’s Only Poisoning Brown People…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2008 03 10 at 09:14 PM • permalink(in a wee, small voice, barely a whisper, really; MentalFloss sidles out of the thread saying: “#16 means well, doesn’t He?...I mean, it was a suggestion of a possible hint, or adumbration, if you will, of a strategem; an idyllic vivification of an idea, one might say, with a soupçon of innocent idealism which, while stillborn, held for brief, almost kairotic moment, the barest semblance of substantiality as a trajectory of thought whose terminal ballistic might—in the best of all possible worlds—actually fall somewhere in the vicinity of the mark…?)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 03 11 at 01:20 AM • permalink
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