Month: September 2026
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En Femme & En Homme

Once upon a time I was visiting the city of Prague and staying with a Finn whom I had met while on the road elsewhere. She was there for a EU sponsored youth work program, as this was during a time when the whole idea of intracontinental collaboration was truly very romantic and blossoming. She…
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The Courtesan

In Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Odysseus told of the Lotus-eaters, the Lotophagi race who lived on an island off the coast of Tunisia. On this island were full of lotus trees. “Whosoever of them ate of the honey-sweet fruit of the lotus, had no longer any wish to bring back word or to return,…