I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. It is that vague time between the COVID-19 lock-down and the great reopening. With the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery on my mind, I scribble the following oddly formed questions into my notebook: what position is left for, or forced upon you, […]
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This post could have been written on Monday, which saw the celebration of Columbus Day and when my son, Eneko, learned all about the ‘discovery’ of America at school. Yet I am posting it today, October 12th, as the anniversary of the actual day in 1492 that Columbus set sail. In the same issue of […]
– O troubled humanity! O the emptiness of life! – Who wants to read about that? – Are you asking me? No one, by Hercules! – No one? – No one or two. –That’s wretched, pathetic. You know how to serve up warm tripe, Make a shivering client the gift of a second-hand cloak, Then […]