Thursday, May 27, 2010

Island Time

is the name of the most recent episode of This American Life, which you can still download here for free, for at least a couple more days. The entire episode in on Haiti, but I found the third act most compelling with Ben Fountain's apocalyptic vision of the earthquake and its aftermath. My own experience in two earthquakes in 1992 was echoed here: when the ground and everything else start moving, one's own insanity can seem the most readily plausible explanation.

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