Day 1,900: quiescent, encampment, lumber, call out

Western public opinion is quiescent: there were not many Sudanese flags flying from Ivy League encampments this year. The un Security Council is split, its bureaucracy lumbering. Other African countries have lost their appetite to call out atrocities.

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Artwork of the day 
Arab Encampment, Biskra
Willard_Metcalf
Date: 1887
Style: Impressionism
Genre: genre painting
Dimensions: 81.3 x 52 cm

Word of the day 
quiescent: temporarily quiet and not active:
encampment: a group of tents or temporary shelters put in one place:
lumber: to move slowly and awkwardly:
call out: to criticize someone or ask them to explain their actions:

Quote of the day
“We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.”

― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude