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A king's progress

by Ron Singer

[ august 07 ]

"The Yoruba word for 'white person' is oyinbo , which literally means 'peeled skin.' The joke was that I was literally an oyinbo ."

A short stroll towards Afghanistan

by Stefan Tobler

[ june 07 ]

"Walking has a habit of releasing timely thoughts from the static."

In towns and cities where we sleep alongside millions the notion doesn’t arise. But out here where there is nobody, we’re terrified of seeing a single man, precisely because there’s nobody else. For why would anybody be out here if he wasn’t reeling around the mercury sands with an idiot grin that changes to a grimace as soon as he sees the tent?

Intellectual seekers in the notorious Tenderloin, San Francisco

by John-Ivan Palmer

[ february 07 ]

"Among the predators and the prey, carefully hiding among the junkies and the slashers, was a thin scattering of stoned entomologists, hopped up Latinists, whorehouse biblical scholars and obsessed littérateurs."

Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird

by Ray Nayler

[ november 06 ]

"The teachers are trying to figure out a Turkmen name for their organization, and a way to word things so that the KNB, the secret police here, will not shut them down. "