Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Theodore Robinson The Cowherd painting

Theodore Robinson The Cowherd paintingTheodore Robinson Man with Scythe paintingTheodore Robinson Figure in a Landscape painting
its inhabitants to the profit of the operators, they acted at once, decisively.
I do not know how the Agency exerts its authority, or even on what its authority rests, or what instruments of persuasion it may use; but the Great Joy Corporation no longer exists. It has ceased to be, as mysteriously as it came to be, still without a history, or a face, or a shred of accountability.
Sita sent me the new literature from Musu Sum. The island resorts are now being operated by the islanders themselves as a cooperative venture, supervised for the first year by expert advisers from the Agency.
This makes sense, in that the modest subsistence economy of the region was completely destroyed by the Great Joy Corporation and cannot be restored overnight, while all the hotels and restaurants and roller coasters are in place, and people who have been trained to serve and entertain the tourists might as well use and profit by their training. On the other hand, it boggles the mind a

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