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times when words fail, the brain keeps working, but the mouth wisely remains shut

Someone told me today he would only buy a Kodak camera. OK, this puzzled me for a moment and in that split second, he provided the answer, “because they’re not made by a country that bombed us.”

There was a big quiet space in my head filled by the thought, “and that thing we dropped on Japan not long afterwards, that would have been a …?”