from writer Elizabeth Null, in talking about nice group we are in,
"Not little prune-faced judges of your every spoken sentence!"
I could do a whole riff on prunes, who are usually prudish.
When I was growing up, one ate prunes to be "regular" and avoid constipation.
Exercise before you go to bed: Try making a prune face in the mirror.
Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.
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