FALLING OFF THE EDGE
Or Where Things Are Not Always What They Seem
When I was small, I clearly remember the third or fourth-grade teacher patiently explaining to us how Christopher Columbus proved the Earth was round “like an apple”. (Some illogical and contrary side of me inwardly commented that apples were not round at all, and had stems, but I likely kept that to myself.)
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WITCHDANCES, WINTERKINGS AND DRAGONSTONES
Or the Astonishing Visions of Hermann Hendrich
A few months ago, my writer friend Harold came by, on his pilgrimage through Germany, digging up the taproots and ostracons of his family and past. Here in Neuchâtel, we visted the Dürrenmatt Museum (thorougly depressing, a concrete mausoleum) and the Laténium (thoroughly uplifting, with a copy of the Gundestrup Cauldron on display, around which we turned and turned for the longest time, inventing stories to go with it) and got talking about this business of museums and how they reveal so much more than just what they have on display. On his return to Campbell River, he sent me a web link, with the admonition “Check this out.”
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