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Category Archives: Non-fictions

Same, same

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I buy books on Africa the same way my mother buys books on Ireland. (I don’t read them the same way.)

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The euphoria of turning 18

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

is now more than 12 years behind me.

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Hierarchy

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The taxi-drivers down the gym  talk of twenty-grand watches. Mine is a Casio – five bucks, from Cambodia.

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Brag

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Give me a phone and an e-mail account and I can get any woman into bed. Almost any woman. Any literate woman. With an above-average sense of humour. And a penchant for high-wire irony. Any woman I want.

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Mortehoe

Saturday, December 17, 2011

My girlfriend cuts mushrooms in time with the radio and I think back an hour to the cliff-edge and the cemetery: the US Army captain … WWII … Korea … d.1984 and a grey stone heart – DOREEN.

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NB: to the ex

Thursday, December 8, 2011

You always had such a low opinion of my opinion of you.

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Unhappy endings

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A. I’m not one of those women who goes crazy… down there. Q. i) Why? ….ii) Why not? ….iii) … How do you know?

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Thoughts on air travel

Thursday, November 3, 2011

I If your children do not go to church or read tales of Greek heroes you will need to take them on a plane to learn the meaning of ‘descent’. II The aeroplane toilet is the nearest thing we have now to a mythical beast.

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Plan

Thursday, November 3, 2011

I do not intend to grow old in a house full of pot-plants and prints.

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Brief lives: Shaka

Friday, September 16, 2011

King Shaka of the amaZulu (1787-1828) conquered the Butelezi, (the Zulus,) the eLangeni, the Butelezi (again), the Mtetwa, the Quabes, the Ndwandwe, the Tembu, the Cunu, and the Ndwandwe (for a second time) – and was killed by his brother.

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