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Herr Doktor Baum (West Germany, 1982)

mike February 7, 2024 August 29, 2024Memories, Posts and Doodlings

I am sitting at a long dining table. The table cloth is brilliant white, a crisp unblemished linen. There is a multitude of heavy forks, knives and spoons for each of us. I assume they are silver. But I wouldn’t know. I am twenty-two years old. Everyone else is twice…

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The Ice Man’s Daughter (Thailand, 2004)

mike April 17, 2005 August 29, 2024Memories, Posts and Doodlings

A flash of saffron catches my eye. A man in white shirt and tan trousers is throwing a bolt of cloth backhanded, high towards the giant bronze Buddha. Above the heat, the incense and the chanting around us, hands reach out and catch it. The men carry the cloth behind…

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