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(I am the beginning of the world and the end of all ages yet I am not God [, who am I?]).
... The letter 'M'!
('world'/mundi starts with M and 'all ages'/saeculorum ends with M........... *awkward silence in cyberspace*)
Anyway, I'm having my Latin exam tomorrow in the McEwan Hall (hence the connection with the letter M, hence the archaic sense of humour, or the lack of it)
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Just this week a Cuban blogger was denied exit Visa (whatever that is!) to travel to Spain to receive some award. How on earth do blogs come to have a wide readership outside one's social circle to the extent of being accused of incitement? That, evidently, isn't one of my aims... (both to be denied exit visas and to incite... I wouldn't mind the Spain bit, though. More Spanish guitar, please.)
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This is a very disjuncted post so here's yet another disjunction: Great documentary, go see it:
Al Jazeera, Iraq War (no I'm not an active activist, which makes me not an activist); most of the action takes place in room called Centcom, a mini-media-colony where thousands of international journalists gathered during the ordeal to receive new information, make live broadcasts, hold interviews etc. Beautiful filmmaking, heartfelt testimonies by the both top-level informants and your average cafe-frequenter in Doha, and a unique chance to peer into how news of the Iraq War was represented, both by Al Jazeera and other agencies of 'the West'. A bit of demonizing goes on, evidently, but not so much in the documentary itself as in the minds of viewers.
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Getting a video camera from Rich tomorrow, shall see if I can put anything interesting onto the web.
You, the reader, still don't exist by the way (except for random googlers of 'elliot leung' or sth of that ilk).
How Calvino.
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