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P. Political Scraps (intro.)
The news of the death of Ian Smith struck me with an unexpected ambivalence. The obit in the online Guardian (no doubt prepared years in advance) stated what was well known: that Smith had been a WWII fighter pilot and a farmer before becoming leader of the ultra-conservative Rhodesian Front. Then as Prime Minister of…
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N. A Few Snapshots (con’d)
Bringing these old negatives to light in such an utterly different time and place felt a bit like recovering bodies from centuries embedded in ice… In some photos, the girls of Weru-Weru (circa 1980) are shown in the classroom or posed in extracurricular duties. Other photos show the girls in their day of rest from…
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N. A Few Snapshots (intro.)
Introduction: I have not abandoned the hope of organizing a legacy package of family photos and videos. Such a project will involve much photoshopping and video-editing–– work which grows more daunting as time dwindles… In the meantime, I have several more themes to explore.’ Perhaps the editing of raw journal excerpts is rather like ‘photoshopping’.…
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M. A Few Clearings (intro.)
It felt strangely intimate this morning to be lying in a chilly darkened room with a young female technician standing beside me. Her wrists protruding from the long sleeves of a wool jacket looked delicate. With one hand, she tapped a computer keyboard while her other briefly tugged her brown ponytail. On the monitor screen…
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M. A Few Clearings (con’d)
It was only when we moved from the table to the sofa that the conversation turned to the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life (SETI). I asked my old classmate in his capacity as the acting president of the western chapter of the Canadian UFO Research Centre, if he really believed any claims of direct contacts…
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V. A Little Levity: (intro.)
Introduction After thumping dirges, the old fingers need a break. It is time to play a few lighter pieces. The common thread of the following vignettes is a certain levity of tone. The humour tends to be dark so the ‘levity’ in some pieces applies more to the manner in which the self-flagellating lash is…
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