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“This manoeuvre is strategic: your destined path cancels my own” – Richard Makin, WORK (Chapter X)

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As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading →

“All that remains is an air-filled cavity connected to the throat, containing three tiny linked bones that transmit vibrations” – Richard Makin, WORK (Chapter X)

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As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading →

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: PeaceZone/WarZone 2008 (excerpt from MENTAL SHRAPNEL, by Phillip O’Neil)

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Chris Mahler was a top psychologist, but that was before the war in Bosnia. Something happened to him during that war – it left him too traumatised to remember. Jasmina was the love of his life. She was killed in the siege of Sarajevo and his ability to live and love again died with her. … Continue reading →

CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: WarZone 2008 (excerpt from MENTAL SHRAPNEL, by Phillip O’Neil)

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Chris Mahler was a top psychologist, but that was before the war in Bosnia. Something happened to him during that war – it left him too traumatised to remember. Jasmina was the love of his life. She was killed in the siege of Sarajevo and his ability to live and love again died with her. … Continue reading →

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