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Saturday, September 16, 2006 12:00 AM

Virtually dead in Iraq

To protest the war in Iraq, a media artist infiltrates the U.S. Army's popular online video game and gets himself shot. While angry gamers, soldiers and even some peace activists call him a nuisance, others say his message hits home.
By Rebecca Clarren

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  • Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:56 AM

    I don't know what to think

    At first this story touched me so that I almost started to cry.

    Then I remembered what Tsvetaeva said about Mayakovsky in her essay "Art in the Light of Conscience"

    If you want to do good works, join the Salvation Army, and leave poetry alone.

    Luckily for her, she died before war became a video game.

    Hey I have an idea -- someone could make a video game about a poet who hangs herself as an alternative to starving to death during a war.

    —Patricia Schwarz

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