A new take on oblivion?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe it's supposed to mean "nothingness."

Or "obliteration."

JL

Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:
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oblivion=desolation? rubble?

>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

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