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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 09, 2014, 09:05:20 am ---I guess I might be reading that story about the miners after all. I'm out of stuff to read while I eat my lunch. :-\
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 09, 2014, 10:53:31 am ---I thought it sounded kind of interesting -- not totally duty. Report back!
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FRiend Lee found it very inspiring:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on July 07, 2014, 07:06:47 pm ---I found the story about the 33 Chilean miners who survived underground for 56 days so inspiring that I gave the issue to my minister.
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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 09, 2014, 10:53:31 am ---I thought it sounded kind of interesting -- not totally duty. Report back!
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Well, I finished the article over dinner this evening. I was familiar with the story from news accounts when it happened, so you might say I knew how it was going to end. It was kind of like reading an adventure story that you know how it ends. It was "kind of interesting," but for myself, I'm afraid I can't call it "inspiring." It definitely wasn't a "duty article." For me "duty articles" are usually about the Middle East.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 10, 2014, 09:05:47 pm ---For me "duty articles" are usually about the Middle East.
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Same here. Though I might extend that to pretty much any other continent besides North America, with the possible exception of Europe, unless it's about economics or politics, in which case Europe is duty, too.
I know, I'm sort of geocentric that way. :-\
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on July 11, 2014, 11:54:05 am ---Same here. Though I might extend that to pretty much any other continent besides North America, with the possible exception of Europe, unless it's about economics or politics, in which case Europe is duty, too.
I know, I'm sort of geocentric that way. :-\
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Is there a word that means "focused on one's own continent or hemisphere"? Isn't that what you really mean?
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 11, 2014, 12:12:29 pm ---Is there a word that means "focused on one's own continent or hemisphere"? Isn't that what you really mean?
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Sort of. I'm actually focused on my own culture, I think.
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