Me and Michel Chapter Twenty

‘To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.’ Bertrand Russell   I’m sitting cross-legged on a beach. It’s almost seven o’clock in the evening and the sand is already wet with dew. The huge sky above my head is purple, almost black, and the air is cool, borderline cold. I’m wearing layers, including a t-shirt, …

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Me and Michel Chapter Nineteen

‘The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.’  Paul Valery   I am one hundred metres above the sea, and like a hovering bird, I can see for miles and miles, or kilometres and kilometres. And after so long on the flatlands of the coastal plain at …

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