Re: Where there's smoke, there's flaming.

[Norman Buchwald <jbuchwald@csun.edu>]

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>This passage is really saying something else.  The "nicotine" refers to
>the charred smoke from her mother's *body*; a very disturbing and
>effective image (affective, also!), I think.  I used to think that the
>narrator was an older person, but now I can see it being a newborn
>baby.

>--
>The UnderToad, (P. Dale Campbell, pdCampbell@goodyear.com)
>___
> |    "Love is like oxygen"; no smoking, please!
> |/
> |\
I did too.  But then I saw the video to "Breathing" and I was surprised. 
 Perhaps I should've referred to the video in my previous post.

                                                   Stormin' Norman

P.S.:  Pollution, nicotine, "chips of plutonium twinkling in every lung," 
Yes, we need to remember that "life is breathing."