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A series of portraits by Nick Gentry made on floppy disks and video cassettes

 

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ANNE FRANK'S NAUGHTY BITS

 
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Anne Frank’s diary is being banned from schools because of a reference to genitals.

Great to see you’ve got your priorities right there, fundies.

One of the best means of introducing young readers to the 20th century’s most important lesson — the Nazi era and the Holocaust — perhaps culled from the curriculum because of something a very curious, articulate and precocious girl wrote in her diary.

 

The passage in question:

There are little folds of skin all over the place, you can hardly find it. The little hole underneath is so terribly small that I simply can’t imagine how a man can get in there, let alone how a whole baby can get out!

 

(It wasn’t in the version I read as a teenager, but is in the newer “definitive” edition, restoring cuts her father made to it.)

 

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Not bad for an amateur … not bloody bad at all!

(Chip Phillips, a clarinet player by profession)

 

see more landscapes here (in his Flickr collection)

 

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Jan Švankmajer - but don’t think this is from his Alice (Něco z Alenky); I have this in my gigantic Švankmajer folder of doom as titled simply “random collage” (?).

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I took Mum to Rosemary’s Baby last night.
Everyone else there was about my age and none of them would dream of taking their parents — but Mum loved it, which was pretty cool.

I’ve seen it twice now and read the book.


 

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Saw Ricki today — man, he looked really cool — getting along Kelvin Street in the old Land-Rover.
His beard and hair have grown — he looked like a gentle Charles Manson.
He tooted and waved like a bloody madman in the middle of town.
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Mum and Dad had a party last night, which wasn’t as drak as I had anticipated. Dad swings in the right company, he’s incredible.

The people who came were witty and reasonably in touch. REASONABLY.

 

And here was me, long hair, peace sign, tight jersey and suede belt with fringe dangling, jeans and bare feet, sitting cross-legged by the fire, smoking and drinking, studying all these young executives.

 

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The grass is always greener somewhere else. Especially if you live at the arse-end of new Zealand and are not allowed to leave home until you get married (true story).

Anyway, this somewhere else is in Wales and I love it!

 

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Could you get me out of Invercargill, Cloggo?
Would you whisk me away to the Woodhouse Wood in Wales?

 

Here are the directions:

Getting here is simple. Take the A477 (Tenby road) for 3 miles west of St. Clears, turn left for New Mill opposite the Old Mill Transport Cafe. Go over the small stone bridge and turn immediately right into the woodland!

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Found here. No credit given

 

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