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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
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SNAPSHOTS FROM HOME
III It's a funny world here in Foggy Bottom on a foggy day. UD has just finished her seminar on contemporary France, and she is back in her office, relaxing for a moment before she gets on the Metro. Circling the sky outside of her windows is ... a white blimp. This she has never seen before - a pure white blimp, like Melville's whale only up in the air, gently and quietly circling the sky above the university, the World Bank, the White House. What does it mean? It's like - UD often thinks in terms of literature, you'll be surprised to hear - that scene in Mrs. Dalloway when everyone in London looks up at the skywriting plane. Since the airspace around here is very restricted, UD figures this pale apparition has to do with presidential security ... inside the blimp are state of the art surveillance technologies and NSA analysts and all ... Whatever it's about, UD likes it. A little intrusion of the surreal into her worklife. |