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Author: Davey Dreamnation
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Scenes from “Algae Rhythm” (2022)
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2 min read
“I’ll tell you to rack off in a minute if you’re not careful.”
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Screen
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2 min read
Your windowsills strewn with corpses of too-slow flies.
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Restless legs
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4 min read
“He had read about this particular type of behaviour …”
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The Editor
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2 min read
No more tracked changes — this time it’s final (.docx).
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In the Republic
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2 min read
My flight had been delayed by an awkward incident during a brief stopover in Z—. One of the passengers — an older man in a crumpled suit — had been pulled from the boarding queue. Two persons, who did not look as if they belonged to airport security, searched the man’s carry-on luggage. From my…
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Tracer
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3 min read
Even at the very end, when it seemed almost hopeless to everyone else, I still believed there was a small chance they’d make it. I fact I’d held onto that belief — stubbornly, I admit, and without logic — since the beginning of their journey. Of course, I’d had no way of knowing who they…
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How to run a Swedish mile
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1 min read
Anyone who’s known me for longer than five minutes might want to sit down for this post. Today I ran a 10klm race for the first time in my 49 years on this mortal coil. I’m now collapsed on the couch having applied a full bag of peas to my right knee, imbibed an ibuprofen-paracetamol…
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Here’s what’s been keeping me busy for the past three months: a reissue of Dag Hammarskjöld’s 1961 Oxford lecture, ‘The International Civil Servant in Law and in Fact’. On 30 May 1961, Dag Hammarskjöld gave a lecture in Oxford about the international civil service. Now, 60 years later, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (DHF) has reissued…
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Schiermonnikoog (Skiermûntseach), Fryslân
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2 min read
Feeling deep in Fryslân now.
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Eelderwolde: somewhere in Drenthe
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2 min read
Time to get back to basics.
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Preoccupations: ‘Disarray’ (Toronto, 2018)
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5 min read
My thoughts on hearing but not seeing Preoccupations play live in Toronto in April 2018.
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Toxic Gulf
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1 min read
years since the gap first appeared between the teeth of a little girl picking raspberries from her mother’s hand by the poisoned stream a toxic tale of porcelain has traced its tiny fingers round the lines on contour maps (& their bedroom walls they stick our portraits & sit up for haircuts while you look…
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Simple
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1 min read
As usual, all it took to restore my faith in humanity was a visit to the local library.
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I remember Australian music in the 1980s
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8 min read
This post started out as a Facebook ‘7-day music challenge’ but as part of my Rejuvenaissance (and in memory of Wa Wa Nee’s Paul Gray) I’m reposting it here, with bonus b-sides. Big thanks to Yarn Akova for inspiring me to do this!
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Farstaviken, Värmdö
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1 min read
Another staycation post, on a place where I like to go for a walk but never swim.