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Dubliner in Japan: 493. Overnight at the governor's mansion
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Tuesday, July 09, 2013. 493 Overnight at the governor's mansion. 7-character, regular verse:. 清秋幕府井梧寒, 獨宿江城蠟炬殘。 永夜角聲悲自語, 中天月色好誰看? 風塵荏苒音書絕, 關塞蕭條行陸難。 已忍伶俜十年事, 強移棲息一枝安。 Clear and cold is this autumn night with parasol trees in the courtyard. Du Fu, 712-770. 422 Japan Quake (with updates).
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Dubliner in Japan: 503. Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Sunday, October 05, 2014. 503 Old Sins Cast Long Shadows. I hear stonebreakers in my mind,. Their hammers pounding,. Rhymithic, ceaseless,. Dead children do not give us dreams,. They give us nightmares. After 20,000 – 25,000 days. I am sitting in a pub in Dublin. Puffed and puling, ris...
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Dubliner in Japan: 490. Eyeless in Gaza: An Exchange of Views
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Friday, November 23, 2012. 490 Eyeless in Gaza: An Exchange of Views. AMIT: What truth is that exactly? What I see is the face of a person who doesn't know what he is talking about. Do you really think that Israel is in it for the purpose of killing Palestinians? That's what it took th...
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Dubliner in Japan: Dubliner in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (again)
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Thursday, August 08, 2013. Dubliner in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (again). Dubliner in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (again). Dubliner in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (again). 422 Japan Quake (with updates). 385 The Lighter Side of Adolf Hitler. 413 The Act of Succession. A post by...
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Dubliner in Japan: June 2015
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Sunday, June 21, 2015. 504 Swimming in SE Asia. I love to bound around. The countries of Southeast Asia,. Which are so perfectly,. Weirdly, historically designed. For chase and concealment. Maugham gets it exactly right. Following one of his colonial types. Not then, not now, not ever.
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Dubliner in Japan: 500. En Famille
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Sunday, August 25, 2013. Dubliner in Japan: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (again). 422 Japan Quake (with updates). As usual it came along without any warning. I had left the house that afternoon to drive up to the Honda factory where I was teaching a dai. 385 The Lighter Side of Adolf Hitler.
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Dubliner in Japan: 495. Souvenir
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Saturday, August 10, 2013. In a mist-filled snow. Cast in grey shadows. Sat an old green bench. With flaking paint;. It had a beady-eyed crow at its end. Who crossly flew away. I don’t really know, you said,. What I’ll do; and I said,. I know, darling, but I’m sure. Away from your eyes.
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Dubliner in Japan: 489. Prince Charles
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Birthday Boy. Same year. I am five days older than this idiot. Lights up the world. We walk the wire. The fire of desire. Can turn. And burn. 490 Eyeless in Gaza: An Exchange of Views. 487 Elvis: Last Train to Memphis. 422 Japan Quake (with updates). A pos...
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Dubliner in Japan: 491. Samurai
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Climbs Mount Fuji -. Sends a message to his wife:. Pretty good day today! Snails have their systems. Well, dear, I made – oh - 2.5? He’d be talking about metres:. Fuji has 3776 of those things. Going up into the snowline. Getting gradually colder, so. Sophie...
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Dubliner in Japan: November 2013
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Opinion pieces, travel articles, places and people; lots of poetry; commentary on current events and history and whatever else shows up on the radar. Articles have been numbered (since Sept. 2004). Go n-eiri an t-adh leat. Saturday, November 02, 2013. Nothing is over, not a thing,. Until time actually ceases. And as you stand below, waiting down in the street. Looking up, open-mouthed,. Wondering, speculating,. Nothing at all happens. Nothing for 20, 30, 40 seconds,. And when such silent moments exist.