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[duke_aldhein]

This so-called concern with human rights, that bombs the hell out of the citizens of Kosovo or Baghdad, ignores so many things. Above all, the ingenuity with which people manage somehow to live, and help each other survive. And this ingenuity is very close to what I mean by tenderness.
(John Berger, interviewed in the Daily Telegraph, 23rd July 2001

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[duke_aldhein]

Howdie, wanderer! That sounds like a fine batch of mutual interests, and I'm always glad of new friends. You may find posts a bit thin on the ground for the next while, though, as I'm diving like a submarine into the second draft of the book I'm trying to write.

Aidan Chambers' novels kept me afloat at a time in my late teens when I might otherwise have gone under. What do they mean to you? Do you have a favourite from the series?

And what do you do near Teesdale? (I get occasional urges to go and live up there again, though Sheffield has its teeth well sunken into me.)