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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Man is unique insofar as he constitutes two events. The event of his biological organism - and, in this, he is like tortoise and hare - and the event of his consciousness. Thus in man two times coexist, corresponding with these two events. The time during which he is...

Tandoori Marinade recipe

Tandoori Marinade recipe

I'm not going to harp on about this, but this really is a phenomenal marinade. We now prefer it to most of our (award-winning, I should add) local Indian restaurants. It is based on the marinade they use at Brigadiers, which is Michelin starred, so we're not messing...

Go, Went, Gone

Go, Went, Gone

So listen, the owl says now: The more highly developed a society is, the more its written laws come to replace common sense. In Germany, I estimate that only two-thirds of our laws are still anchored in the emotional lives of the people, as it were. The other third...

America

America

Minneapolis Aeronautic missionary of the silent majorities, I jump with cat-like tread from one airport to the other. Now it’s the blazing woods of New Hampshire, casting a fleeting reflection in the mirror of New England. Yesterday, it was the steepling gentleness of...

Orbital

Orbital

We have all been travelling, the crew thinks, travelling for years with barely a moment of settling; all of us living out of bags and borrowed places, hotels, space centres and training facilities, sleeping on friends’ sofas in midway cities between one training...