Afternoon. Room.

"Just like any other war, this is not a clean war," he said. "This is a dirty war. You cannot judge it in humanitarian terms."

- Israeli army commander in charge of the brigade in Nablus. From the NYT, 10/3//02, 'An Israeli's sorrowful rule over a sullen Nablus'.

Evening. Compelled by sloth to remain in room.

Ferdinand Marcos in his 1965 inaugural address: 'The Filipino, it seems, has lost his soul, his dignity, and his courage. Our people have come ot the point of despair. We have ceased to value order.'

And this is apparently because, as Marcos continued, the 'government is gripping the iron hand of venality, its treasury is barren, its resources are wasted, its civil service is slothful and indifferent, its armed forced demoralized and its councils sterile.'