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Public library 23.10
Theoi Greek Mythology library. A great resource, everything you will need.
Host by David Foster Wallace. This essay, though from 2005, is certainly new to me. It has a different tone to his better known essays – does this mean it is not as good? DFW’s non-fic strengths are (were) his wit and his keen observation of humans, [...]
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On the train
The girl talks, her voice sonorous and clear. A mobile phone rings. Two dozing labourers listen to a portable radio. Beer bottles in plastic bags clink between their legs as the train jolts. Chatter and laughter rises from the back of the carriage. A passenger at the front unthinkingly opens and closes a window. It [...]
A truth scarcely entertained by theorists
It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the naked eye, we would clearly see the strange phenomenon whereby every individual member of the human race corresponds to one of the species of the animal kingdom; and we would easily recognise this truth, scarcely entertained by the theorists, that from the oyster to [...]
Aboriginal elder, Aunty Merle
Aunty Merle
There is no sign, only a numberless letterbox on a stand and a short ramp that leads to an open door. Inside, the centre is bare and quiet, so quiet that voices echo from one hall to the next. In a glass cabinet near the entrance are handmade necklaces, bracelets and earrings with little [...]
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Patching
“…to join or unite the piece, marked by some action or condition [to preserve and make use of]… [for] a period of indeterminate length [of time in order to maintain tradition]”
The field notes were stolen by mistake. When the robbers broke through my mother’s bedroom window, they did not foresee or plan to steal a [...]
Padre Fontes
Featured writer Marlene Lage meets Father Fontes, an ethnographer, intellectual, informal psychologist and exorcist in Portugal’s far north.
It was a very cold winter night when we knocked at the door of Father Fontes’s Nossa Senhora dos Remedios (Our Lady of Good Health) eco-hotel in Vilar de Perdizes. Anticipation had hunted me in the two hour [...]
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The greatest humiliation of his life