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Kamongo or, The Lungfish and the Padre - Homer W. Smith
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Picked it up, slender, curious worn cover - it's the slenderness and obscurity that draw me towards it, that and that it's priced at a dollar.
Enthusiastic reviews by nobody I've ever heard of adorn the back cover.
Written, late 1930's
A dialogue between a priest and a physiologist, both on a long ship voyage through the Suez Canal, the Priest, or Padre, on his way to a Mission in deepest colonial Africa, the Physiologist, also in Africa, studying the Lungfish, an evolutionary throwback to the days when fish breathed air before developing gills.
The conversations, on the one hand representing the evolutionary point of view, that life will out in all it's diversity, and the Priest is largely silent, his belief in something other than this - argued, but - not so much.
Not so much a dialogue as a advertisement for evolution and the randomness - and inevitability - of life.
So - always good to read - always, books from a different era, books with something to say. His Point of View stands today - even with all the advancements of science - the world is largely colored by our interpretation and understanding of it.
And there are no ready answers, which is, I suspect, as it should be.
2 Weeks
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And I mean, the longest 2 weeks in the world. I just realized it today - thinking - it was 2 weeks ago yesterday that I fled Nelson in a rumbledown jeep, blazing through floods and landslides on a wing and a prayer to...
Where?
Wherever.
And 2 weeks later here I am. Hope, the disasters, floods, meals at the church and matinees at the cinema. It seems like months, years ago even.
Followed by the trip to Vancouver, 3 days in the Hostel deciding, indecisive. And then - on the computer - looking for, finding a job - all - quite literally - in the same night.
My head spins. Work - a surreal fever dream, "The Cook, The Thief..." lived out in pantomime, imposter syndrome, wandering the Zombie land of East Hastings, Steve, the hostel, the memories crowd my head, make it seem like years have passed when really - it's only been a few short days.
Walking Vancouver, relearning it, I'm not sure I ever forgot, there are everywhere jogs for my memory, Seabus to North Vancouver today, thrifting - expensive, nothing I'm looking for, another white shirt for work, studying the menu...
Time passes.
The French Dispatch
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Night off, take advantage of the big city to see a movie.
I liked this. Wes Anderson, he's a master of visual storytelling - embodying humor, irony, satire, nothing too "meaningful", but therein lies his charm.
The instantly recognizable visual styles, the amusing and irrelevant camera tricks, background "jokes", he is - after his own fashion - a genius.
A wonderful ensemble cast (the same players as always), 3 stories on diverse themes - love, art, crime, not every one as much to my taste, but all brilliant.
Worthwhile.
Bronze Axes & Albrecht Durer
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Busy, busy, and no time really to get out and about on the world wide web. But a couple of interesting treasure finds I should share - not mine:
#1 - 13 Year Old Metal Detectorist finds Bronze Age Axe Hoard:
#2 - $30 drawing proves to be by Albrecht Durer and is worth millions:
Which gives one a taste, survive the winter, get a Jeep and lets get this ball rolling!!
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