Louis-Ferdinand Céline:

"Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rotted viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.”

W H Auden:

"But in my arms till break of day / Let the living creature lie. / Mortal, guilty, but to me/ The entirely beautiful."

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Are Table and Chair of Somnath Chatterjee, Speaker of the India's 14th Lok Sabha, Fireproof?



Artist: Drew Dernavich The New Yorker July 28th, 2008 Cartoon Caption Contest 154


Proposed Caption:

"For us Indian communists nothing is unfair against anyone who goes against our groupthink. Remember Trotsky?

Here we are about to burn down the table and chair of comrade Chatterjee on the night of July 21, 2008. Now we”ll see how he chairs the session and tries to save the government."