December 15, 2005

The Limits of Eloquence

"Over time, I developed a personal relationship with Ms Cheng. I did not want to disclose the extent of this personal relationship to others, particularly my wife," Keyser said.

This is brilliant. It's all sanitization and civilisation and afternoon tea and the normal course of nature and abstraction and equivocation and omission and diplospeak and HSBC the world's local bank and Fly Emirates and international business as usual and not even the slightest hint of full sex with a foreign spy until the wheels-have-come-off, crash-landing, plane-completely-fucked-up, bodies-all-over-the-place-but-no-survivors-whatsoever impact of his last three words.

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Posted by Setsunai at December 15, 2005 10:48 AM
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