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March 10, 2004
Chiasms in contemporary langauge
We were discussing chiasms in Greek class on Monday. These are literary structures (conscious or unconscious) that have a A B C C' B' A' pattern. Having had our feelers primed, I saw this one in a BBC news report the next day:
Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 March, 2004, 03:50 GMT Blix details his 'mission impossible' By Paul Reynolds BBC News Online world affairs correspondentBlix's still small voice of calm on Iraqi WMD was not loud enough
If there was one man who could have stopped the war in Iraq last year, it probably was not Hans Blix.
He faced a mission almost impossible. He was looking for something which did not exist.
When he duly found nothing, the Americans and British would not accept that absence of evidence meant evidence of absence.
Posted by thdyck on March 10, 2004
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