updated nhts to 2022. lisa desjardins: with nine percent of the vote in, she's crushing it. anonymous frenchman: ask a neighbor. november 1st ft:
the mediterranean, he noted, was increasingly behaving like the caribbean sea. the warmer body of water helps to form hurricanes that can devastate the coasts of the us, central and south america, and the region's islands
hamtramck, a town near detroit where the mayor has backed trump
the test, pyongyang's first launch of an icbm potentially capable of striking the us mainland in almost a year, reached its highest-ever altitude and lasted 86 minutes, the longest-ever flight time for a north korean missile, according to japan's defence ministry
judicial authorities in argentina and venezuela both issued arrest warrants for the other's president in september
watched rivers of life season one. one source of the nile from earth's highest non-volcanic, non-orogenic mountains. rio branco rio negro visibly distinct ninety miles after mixing. hoatzin claws in its wings, stinky. river dolphins polyphyletic. bolivia highest share of population in amazon basin
read in gratitude by jenny diski
'why didn't you just do what you were told?'
the game comes complete, straight out of the memory box. i see them. i see me. all of us laughing. me shrieking. being tickled is a kind of torture - it has its own page on wikipedia
asking questions didn't seem to annoy people
i often went barefoot around london
you behaved so badly, people kept, keep telling me
'you have an addictive personality'
fire and ice and everything nice
in the swedish arctic..clothing designed to make the peeing process a zip for men, but requiring for me, without a distance-spraying organ, to expose practically all of myself to the herd of untroubled reinder
i'd hoped for something like popeye's transfiguration after downing a tin of spinach, but i was still pretty tired in the days after
the tumor has shrunk a little, but, onc doc said swiftly, it was small to start with. the lymph nodes too have decreased a little in size. there was neither excitement nor disappointment in his manner. it may be that he has the same air of studied neutrality in his everyday life, when eating a delicious meal or going over the top of a rollercoaster. or, more likely, it is for work purposes alone, in order to prevent overexcitement or crashing disappointment in patients with unrealistically high hopes or fears
maths was invented to grapple with concepts that metaphor made murky
'i bet you've found faith now,' believers wrote to christopher hitchens when he announced he had terminal cancer. he insisted he hadn't. i'd never been envious of those who believe in an afterlife until now. it would be so much cosier than dissolution
then there's my daughter chloe and her frighteningly large family - two small children and partner. vast by my miniaturist standards. one child good. more than one, tempting fate
'there's nothing else we can do for you.' doc language for 'you've failed us and you'll just have to die, which is not our specialty, so goodbye'
as i write there is a world refugee crisis
why the hell had i had those greedy, self-absorbed, terrifying parents if it wasn't to have something to write about? it wasn't exactly superstitious, nor overtly religious (now one and the same thing)
the next morning i had a stitch in my forehead where the gravel had made a sizeable hole, and two enormous black eyes, like the mask of zorro. 'can you count back from twenty to one?' the student doc asked, checking whether i had damaged my brain. i said 'yes', which i thought should be enough to put an end to this affair
'granjen, why are you so slow?' 'all the better to . . . '
as soon as she saw blood dripping from my wrist, she fainted and they thought she was the patient..i waved my bloody-razored arm at them to show what the situation was
always fancied, 'smoke gets in your eyes'
i lay on the sofa with an upturned hand over my forehead as i'm sure they were depicted in little women
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