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Images of train wrecks, and Astro-Chimp's addition of the Tiananmen Square image put me in mind of great disasters as miniatures. I think that it's appropriate (if macabre, and offensive to some) in a sense.. after all, we build models, monuments, miniatures to remember/replicate/pay tribute to the things we consider important.
I think it also echoes how these disasters age over time in our memories, seeming more and more harmless when only superficially thought of, though their impact never diminishes for those they directly affected.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
mini tsunami horrors
