Déjà Tragique... (also: NOT Sophie's Choice)
When I left Australia over a week ago, the breaking news was about three miners in Tasmania that had been trapped. When I returned yesterday, they were STILL in the news. I had to check the date and make sure that the last ten days had really happened. Two of the three were still alive, but STILL trapped. Amazing.
Speaking of déjà vu, the CURRENT breaking news has a heartbreaking example of it. A little 5 year old girl named Sophie, recovering from horrendous injuries she sustained in 2003 when a car plowed into her daycare center, was injured again yesterday when she was struck by a car. She was being pushed in a stroller through a crosswalk when a driver carelessly tried to pass another vehicle that was STOPPED at the crosswalk. Amazing.
UPDATE:
In case you hadn't heard, the Tasmanian miners were rescued in relatively good health, and it appears that little Sophie Delezio may pull through this latest catastrophe.
posted by beezdotcom @ 6:36 PM
4 Comments:
Why do you use the adjective "amazing" so much?
stafford
Wow...Stafford is looking at your use of adjectives, I'm still trying to figure out " Déjà Tragique"
I'm simply juxtaposing sophisticated characterizations like 'tragique' against more redundant, trite alliterations like 'amazing'. It should be intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer...
He doesn't know as many words as the rest of us...
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