Judges cite nonsense poem in Guantanamo case »
Posted By idyll 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsA federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.
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"You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and never get wet." - The Phantom Tollbooth
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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idyll beat me to this story, which also has another, later, posting elsewhere, so I decided to simply offer the original poem which, when read in this context does indeed make the whole "war on terror" seem more like its taking place in Absurdistan rather than Afghanistan.
See, in particular, the Bellman's Speech!
http://books.propeller.com/story/2008/07/01/
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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The whole text of the poem - not very long at all - can be downloaded free, in a variety of different formats, here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13
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