By Baxter Black
On the Edge of Common Sense
Just Words
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They were just words.
“Tear down the Berlin Wall!” Reagan to Gorbachev at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987
“Chance of rain.” Weatherman in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
“Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry, 1775
“I wish I’d never read this book... so I could read it again for the first time”. Dan Trimble about Hemingway’s “Old Man and the Sea”. 1992
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