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Category Archives: À la recherche du temps perdu

I love the smell of fierce acetylene air in the morning

07-Sep-09

The fierce acetylene air has singed their writhing trunks with rust, the same hues as a foundered, peeling barge. The fierce acetylene air has singed their writhing trunks with rust, the same hues as a foundered, peeling barge. – Derek Walcott, The Almond Trees The Almond Trees is my favourite of Derek Walcott’s poems. And [...]

Still crazy after all these years.

18-Jun-09

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Today I was forwarded an email from an old friend to whom I was once very close. It’s been over fifteen years since we last met, but it made me [...]