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Chap. 18, pp 386-392 are particularly apropos to this time in the US.

The book asks: if the revelation of a Storm Trooper as black reflects to the disproportionate presence of "disposable" non-whites; if he was serving under a white officer per US history; and if his service in sanitation* mimics the early servile positions of black US troops?

* Or does "sanitation" mean "ethnic-cleansing?"

"Comedy is a predatory sport, closer to the lynch mob than to church. Poetry is church." Garrison Keillor

Why have I never heard of Kate Warne?

"Our word 'history' comes, by way of Latin, from the Greek word historien' which means 'to narrate'', and that word comes from another Greek word, histor, 'a judge'.

History not only tells a story, but it passes judgment on it, puts it in order, gives it meaning."

"Just as seventeenth-century colonists followed the sixteenth-century explorers, so too did these artists build upon past discoveries."

"Conquered Greece took her rude captor captive." ~ Horace

Effie"...calls for a round of applause. But not a single person claps. As Katniss observes, 'I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All this is wrong.' They could not protest, but neither would they agree to celebrate the sending of Katniss to what seemed like near certain death.

They chose a third way."