Ernest Bramah Quotes
However deep you dig a well it affords no refuge in the time of flood.
Bramah, Ernest. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat. Richards Press, 1928.
There was violence but ironically in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, it was not the civil rights leaders who were murdered but 4 little girls.
The bipartisan Presidential Commission had unanimously made 41 recommendations to prevent future terrorist attacks. While the Bush Administration and Congress implemented a few many of the more critical ones were left unaddressed. The commission on its final day issued a report card giving failing grades to both the White House and the Republican-controlled Congress.
On New Year’s Day Floods began and in 1917 over 1 million acres of water soon were held in check by the levees. In April of 1918 the first Federal Levee at Cabin Teel breached. Nearly 1 million people had lost their homes. 325,000 people were made refugees in the worst Mississippi floods in recorded history. Not a year had elapsed from the time the system was declared safe. The Corps of Engineers was and is highly politicized in its decision making and operations and as such, cannot be relied upon as a professional engineering group despite several excellent engineers on their staff.
This is the origin of the description of America as the “asylum for mankind.” The word in this context indicates a place of safety and refuge.
Flash floods in the desert are will known to all Bedouin, and each is very different from the others in its circumstances and consequence. The metaphor here is for all travail and disaster. Each is unique, especially to the victim.
There are several different strategies for fighting forest fires. Some argue to let them burn themselves out. Others want to burn old brush regularly under control. Still others want to fight every fire regardless of size. Most communities have not reached any decision on these points and as a result, for most communities, none of the strategies prove effective since none are planned for.
Ernest Bramah, whose name was recorded after his birth as Ernest Brammah Smith, was an English author. He published 21 books and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works were ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. George Orwell acknowledged that Bramah's book What Might Have Been influenced his Nineteen Eighty-Four. Bramah created the characters Kai Lung and Max Carrados.
