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Archive for September, 2007

Strange meetings

It’s not everyday you meet a practicing member of a group called ‘The Spiritual Human Yoga of South Grand’.
And when one asks you to take their photograph on Mui Ne beach you can’t really refuse.

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Espionage

“You come to my house. Then you go Saigon. No, my house first: Saigon later.”
These words were spoken at 5.30am and came from the room next to mine. A deep voice, possibly German. I had visions of him wearing an overcoat with an upturned collar, smoking a cigarette and [...]

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Midwives of thought

 
“The 747 appears at first as a small brilliant white light, a star dropping towards earth. It has been in the air for 12 hours. It took off from Singapore at dawn…..A symbol of worldliness, carrying within itself a trace of all the lands it has crossed; it’s eternal mobility offering an imaginative counterweight to [...]

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It was an auspicious flight from Doha. It was only the fourth flight Qatar Airways had flown to Saigon, and the airport terminal in Saigon had only been open for two days. The thunderstorm as we descended made for a dramatic beginning to my first period of time away with yellow forked-lightning colouring the clouds [...]

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