The Geecologist

The Asra

The Asra

Aug 17, 2024 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Every day so lovely, shining,up and down, the Sultan’s daughterwalked at evening by the water,where the white fountain splashes. Every day the young slave stoodby the water, in the evening,where the white fountain splashes,each day growing pale and paler. Then the...
Satin Island

Satin Island

Jan 8, 2022 | Fiction | 0 comments

5.1 On the Company. No: on companies; on companies and crowds; whatever. In the fifties and sixties, people like me started conducting studies of corporations, presenting their findings back to the academy, for consecration as pure, unconditional knowledge. But,...
Arabian Sands

Arabian Sands

Jun 26, 2021 | Non-Fiction, Travel | 0 comments

From Abyssinia I was sent to Syria, where I served in Jabal al Druze and later worked for a year among the tribes. The deserts in which I had travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no...
Sapiens

Sapiens

Jul 29, 2017 | Non-Fiction | 0 comments

“On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon. In the months leading up to their expedition, the Apollo 11 astronauts trained in a remote moon-like desert in the western United States. The area is home to several Native American...
Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country

Jun 1, 2009 | Fiction | 0 comments

Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens the pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children...