He channeled the water through a hose from a nearby canal, then into a bicycle frame and out of the handlebars... They say in Japan that a giant catfish lives under the Archipelago, and that his movements are the cause of earthquakes... Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness; obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or trivial or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day... Scores of men, women and children were killed outside Damascus in an attack marked by the telltale signs of chemical weapons.
