Having read “The God of Small Things”, I decided to give some of Arundhati Roy’s essays a try. I found a neat little book called The Cost of Living containing two essays: One on the massive dam-building projects in India, and one on the nuclear …
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I just finished reading Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Things” – which I remember hearing of when it was published 7 years ago, but never got around to look at. Since then, I’ve tried reading Salman Rushdie’s rather daunting prose (both Midnight’s Children and …
Read MoreReading blogs: a brief introduction
Traditionally, a blog is sort of a directory of odd, cool or outrageous things that somebody have spotted on the web and wanted to share. I’ll try to do a bit of that as well, even though there are places that are much better at …
Read MoreNews snacks – a taste of situationist poetry
I don’t have any exams this semester which makes an interesting change. So while everybody around me are cramming for their various exams, I just do ordinary common people stuff like go to work and worry about the evils of this world – though those …
Read MoreThe meaning of life?
While I was in Spain this summer, I more or less accidentally stumbled upon the bargain of a lifetime: Interestingly enough, the receipt is from the “Torre de la Calahorra” – a museum in Córdoba dedicated to the Arabic cultural heritage in southern Spain. Did …
Read MoreLinks galore
I’ve been messing around with the page template a bit, and have managed to produce a list of links for your viewing pleasure. I’ll be adding more in different categories later on. For now there’s just a few comics that I enjoy and some other …
Read MoreBlogs away!
Hello World. Well, I finally decided to jump aboard the blog bandwagon, mostly as a way to keep in touch with everybody back home while I’m in Manchester studying Anthropology this spring. Actually I’ve been avoiding any proper webdesign for years and years, mostly because …
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