A new take on oblivion?

[Michael McKernan]

oblivion=desolation? rubble?

><http://letters.washingtonpost.com/W8RH048B74204BAAEEC7F3D53EB5D0>Vacation
>Ends, and Crisis Management Begins
>ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Aug. 31 -- As his blue-and-white jet swooped low
>over New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, President Bush pressed his face
>against the window and stared out at oblivion.
>(By Peter Baker, The Washington Post)

Michael McKernan