[Ads-l] "writ small"

[Amy West]

On 10/1/23 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:03:40 -0400
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: "writ small"
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/democratic-nation-allowed-die-un-070000527.html
>
> "The siege of Stepanakert during which Azeri forces killed several thousand
> in bombings of schools and hospitals, was Guernica writ small."
>
> Could mean "with less publicity," or it could mean creeping illiteracy.
> I'm guessing it's the former.
>
> Probably about 300 people died in the bombing of Guernica.
>
> JL

That I don't know. I'm wondering if the statement was influenced more by 
the artwork than the historical event.

Yes, I think it's definitely about less publicity: more atrocious, less 
well known.

---Amy West

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