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A Wizard's field notes ~ Art, politics, magic ~ City-watching, beach-combing, omens, ideas ~ A zuihitsu of the weirdinary
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Budburst & Octogenarians (opens the original)
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A Postcard From the Tutukākā Coast (opens the original)
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Dear Magician, Standing at the high window gazing out upon the (highly tapu) headland, I mused that it reminded me of something: a Christmas pudding. Naughty! It did, though— that high dome shape, as if inverted from a basin. And the islands on the horizon… We knew the tall one to the right was called the Sugarloaf, but what about that little pair there to the left?1 We looked on the map: High Peak Rocks. A very boring name! To me they looked like a pair of child’s mittens poking out of the sea,
Old Stone, New Sun (opens the original)
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