Category: Travel
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F. Scraps of Memoir from Afar (con’d)
Later in the afternoon on the terrace of the Manor Hotel, Mariam was on her third beer, while I was sipping ginger ale. Suddenly the sky darkened and whirlwinds of dust were blowing in the street. Amid the tropical downpour that followed we watched passersby running for cover. Then without warning a black bird flew…
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A. Chronicles of Departures and Arrivals (intro.)
Introduction: ‘Heading West’ (pulled from the very bottom of a battered blue trunk), is a detailed account of a train trip across Canada in July 1974. The journey was neither taken for tourism nor for adventure but in expectation of a new beginning. However hesitant to expose the writing of a vulnerable 22-year-old, I post it in…
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A. Chronicles of Departures and Arrivals (con’d)
We pushed towards Illorin in the late afternoon heat… Instead of looking out the window, I stared at the Newsweek magazine (picked up at the Jebba Petrol Station) open on my knees, haunted by the report of a terrible commuter jet crash near San Diego. (‘This is it, baby!’ were the recorded words of the…
Coprolites in Amber (etc.) 