Tahitian tales (and the selfish desire to sail away)
I fell for the same Edenistic charms that Melville, Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson had all succumbed to. Tahiti, it was then.
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I fell for the same Edenistic charms that Melville, Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson had all succumbed to. Tahiti, it was then.
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The words, the single units, are overpowering scents of cheese. To my ear, the sentences are most troubling. They’re occupied provincial markets. Other times, they consist of warring articles and prepositions, hooting at one another as if they’re busily competing to reach the coast.
Looking back, looking forward Read More »
This last week, I regulated use of social media just a little bit. I felt I had time to catch my breath. I also sat with my emotions even when they were that bit harder to confront. No topless men to waste minutes ogling on Instagram; no tweets to foam and fulminate at.
The danger of the single story Read More »
I don’t know whether the woman who roams by the cemetery is Romany, but she is very much lost.
She who roams by the cemetery Read More »
The odd car careers around the twist in the road. Another slows hauntingly, to check whether I’m a ghost.
Houssem’s yellowing teeth flicker like the flame rising from the pyre of Saharan cypress.
Mandarins in April Read More »
The significance of Hannukah was lost on me as a boy, even years later, when I watched Ross Geller dress up as an armadillo to impress upon his and Rachel’s son how important the festival is!
Moroccan mellahs and armadillos Read More »
Andrew Kaye discovers there’s more to the Estonian capital than dreaming medieval spires and a fantastic food scene.
There’s more than meets the eye to Tallinn Read More »