On the Beach

Posed?  Unposed?  Shades of the end of Kubrick’s ’2001′?   Is there some special irony in the fact that part of Nevil Shute’s post-nuclear-apocalypse novel ‘On the Beach‘ took place in an abandoned oil refinery near Seattle?

Here:  oil-spill clean-up workers suited up  yesterday at Dauphin Island, Alabama.

Photo:  Michael Appleton, New York Times

2 Responses

  1. New York Times? Posed? “Wag the Dog”? I’ll never forget the “bread line in Russia” photo. I couldn’t stop staring at it and finally getting out my magnifying glass. Every single person in that line was wearing fur and/or well-tailored clothing.

  2. Wow! The photo came out great! And the built-in links, plus meta tags for later topic-searching… you are really making this site interesting, Leslie!

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