Certainties And Other Conceits
June 8, 2008
I didn’t hear Senator and Candidate Clinton’s parting (or should that be parsing) shot. I’m told that with triumphal theatrics she “suspended” her campaign, to echoing cheers and fading shouts. Another addition to history’s mounding pile of footnotes.
Sometime today I’ll come upon her performance, settled and still, in the newspapers. Absent the immediacy and distractions one can reflect on the remains of a what might have been moment.
Perhaps in the ruins of dashed hopes and thwarted ambitions I’ll find a charred fragment of presumed inevitability.
A life lesson for us all.
Just ask Big Brown.
