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Monthly Archives January 2008

Residence Port-Neuve

It’s about 11pm now as I sit here, overlooking the city of Nantes on a Sunday night. The red and white lights of its curving boulevard blink up at me like an empty, forgotten roller-coaster. It is the day before New Year’s Eve, and there is not a person in sight.
I am staying in perhaps […]

Posted 10 January 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °

Ode to Imodium

I have just realised why I always enjoy advertisements for anti-diarrhoea mediactions. It is because the advertisements uniformly focus on depicting a person who does not have diarrheoea; and of course, for reasons of taste, and the advertiser’s subtle pyschological calculations, this is not achieved by direct graphic illustration - no pictures of dry, clean […]

Posted 09 January 2008 † John Mansfield § Normal ‡ Comments (0) °