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Notes on graving
The image of Dr. Nicolas Auguste Gay-Bellile’s grave, a massive head perched on top of a skyscraping tombstone, reminds me of Dune and the way director Denis Villeneuve showed the corpulent menace, Vladimir Harkonnen, using Holtzmann suspensors to rise and allow the baron to seemingly nullify gravity. The image of
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“There are salacious rumors going around saying our planet is burning and that you are no longer around. Only the latter is false. Along Rue de Dunkerque I passed by Terminus Nord the other day and paused, remembering when you walked in by chance, with lovely Shruti, and later Athena
Jeff Woodke, the Ransomed Poet
My good friend, Jeff Woodke. We first met in the climate negotiations sometime in the first decade of the new millennium. I was with Greenpeace International then, and he was with Tearfund, a non-profit set up by evangelicals, which was quite surprising. Jeff had a wicked sense of humor; we
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Notes on graving
The image of Dr. Nicolas Auguste Gay-Bellile’s grave, a massive head perched on top of a skyscraping tombstone, reminds me of Dune and the way
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