Indeed, violence broke out in the occupied territories in mid-May 2000 as Palestinians observed the anniversary of the 1948 nakba—these disturbances paled in comparison to the second intifada, which erupted in the autumn.
There they were, prostitutes, shoplifters, drug-users, teetering on the brink of an Aug. 19 or a Dec. 17, a Feb. 1 or a June 6, tumbling, then plummeting into uncharted, calendarless space.
[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.
Termites are herbivores and detritivores variously involved in the comminution and decomposition of vegetable matter, through most of the warm temperate and tropical zones.
