The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #56328 Message #880326
Posted By: Peter T.
01-Feb-03 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: Space Shuttle Crash?
Subject: RE: Space Shuttle Crash?
Not to be too technical about it, but while on the subject of literary responses, and as mentioned in the other thread, it is worth remarking that Bush's speechwriter did another exemplary job at what must have been very short notice. Pitch perfect -- the use of linked metaphor (darkness, for example, at exactly the right place) alone is brilliantly apt; the quote from Isaiah, the movement into the names of the 7 linked to the names of the stars, and then linked to "safely home". Really first rate, especially given the "great communicator's shadow ("touched the face of God") over your shoulder.
yours, Peter T.