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Concrete Dreams
Poonam Jolly: Concrete Dreams: Notes on Ecology, Economy and Architecture. A Review by Jarmo Pikkujamsa 27 October 2023. When did you last have someone plump up your mattress to avoid back problems? And have you had the fortune of having a gardener who doesn’t doze off while watering your plants? Poonam Jolly’s Concrete Dreams: Notes…
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Attention
I searched for guitar lessons and put out the word and then other words and other words and in the end I felt that I had found the right tune even without the guitar.
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A Jam
The organisers of the conference on ‘The Challenges of Urban Planning in Contemporary Dakar’ announced that it had been postponed for two hours due to heavy traffic on the Corniche, and that the delivery of parasols should be arriving any minute.
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Townspeople
By nightfall we would meet in New York City. But first we had a few chores to do, like washing and feeding the sheep.
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End of the world
On a hot day we would swim under the bridge and wait for a train from the steelworks. When a train passed over our heads, we would scream as if the world was going to end.