mickey meets babylon

[_libertad]

In an ‘agreement’ with the ‘Mayor’ of Baghdad, the fifty acre Zawra Park is to be developed into a trashy Disneyland by the Tigris, complete with malls, hotels, housing, amusements, entertainment and a museum. Iraq’s National Museum with its millennias of treasures and the National Library’s irreplaceable ancient volumes and manuscripts were looted

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Swimming in a Sea of Solecisms.

[publius_aelius]

I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t [Sic.; correction: the subjunctive, "weren't," signifying a condition not likely to be or not yet realized} making money...

Both the "Ogre" and his corrupt business-men allies speak gibberish:

The Ogre does what ogres can,
Deeds quite impossible for Man,
But one prize is beyond his reach:
The Ogre cannot master speech.

About a subjugated plain,
Among it's desperate and slain,
The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,
While drivel gushes from his lips.

-W. H. Auden, British poet and essayist, August 1968