Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Ghosted Ghosted Ghosted Ghosted Ghosted

It's a nice irony that the promotional roll-out for former President Bush's coming memoir is a picture:


DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS DECISIONS


Oh! My sincere apologies for the pain you must be experiencing. Were the Internet anything but a visual medium, I'd have advised you to avert your gaze and avoid spoiling a perfectly good Tuesday morning filled with sights that are not this book cover. Or I could just not have posted the book cover—and a day late, at that. But I have a question: if this book is not, as W says, a traditional memoir, but an account of his key decisions, do you think it ends with a description of his decision to write this book and a description of his decision to end his book with a description of his decision to write this book?
Sub-query: what is a decision point, anyway, and is it related to the point of no return? As in, if I decide to buy this book, can it be returned?


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/04/decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions-decisions.html#ixzz0mKduIyOt

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