It's a tenterhook. You didn't know that, didja? That said, Ouch! It looks like a painful thing to be kept on! Give it up, HRC. Let a grateful nation off the friggin' hook!
"The champagne bottle has been pushed to the back of the refrigerator. And the progress, while real, is fragile and is reversible." ~ Gen. David Petraeus
I have a hunch that the champagne has actually been spirited across the border into Syria, where it will be refrigerated for future use, alongside Saddam's WMD. Ya gotta love those "reversible" operations.
I am an introverted blue collar pilgrim, surviving near the center of the continent, on the fringes of a shopworn civilization. I abide in rooms full of partially-read tomes, each bookmarked with the fragment of a shattered illusion.
Everything which is inspired, heroic or saintly is derived from contemplation.
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One--the smallest of numbers... That is the infinite. A number which increases thinks that it is getting nearer to infinity. It is getting further away from it. You have to stoop to rise.