"The demonstrators climbed their way up Churton Street, like
the remnants of a whipped army of dreams in retreat from reality.
'Please, how much further is it to the Town Hall?' one red-faced
woman, struggling under the burden of her absurdly large flag,
asked me - seemingly oblivious to the
red
string on my right wrist. 'Only about three blocks' I assured
her with a sympathetic smile and, then, to her receding back: 'and
150 years....'" -- DocDawg,
2015-08-11 (thanks to
fidhle
for pointing out this article to me)