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Three generations of women show the effects of exposure to iodine isotopes after a Soviet radiation leak. A desperately ill woman waits for her liver to arrive from Asia. A hallucinogenic jellyfish off the coast of Hawaii sparks off a compulsive quest for the ultimate extreme sport. A hypnotist is targeted by a schoolgirl. These shocks all happen when contact is made between different cultures, species, substances. The stories in The Shock of Contact show people losing control of everything because of the devastation of the unfamiliar.
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Posted April 21, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
Posted April 20, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
When my girlfriend (now wife) first came to Australia, we met my family then set off on a road trip of south-eastern Australia. The idea was to introduce her to the more accessible parts of the country and see some nice scenery. We had the usual wildlife experiences – feeding rosellas in the Grampians, catching water dragons in Manly, hitting a kangaroo in my parents’ car – and a few that I didn’t expect.
As a veteran of Australia, I didn’t think I would see anything new. I thought we were lucky finding echidnas in Kangaroo Island and near the Grampians. Then on a trip to see a cave full of glow worms near Bowral, a wombat ran past us. I had never seen wombats in the wild before.
We took a random route from Melbourne to Canberra, ending up late one evening at Bombala. We found somewhere to stay. As we were checking in, the landlady said, ‘I suppose you’ve come up to see the platypuses.’ We got a few details and went to bed. Getting up before sunrise in a mountain winter wasn’t the ideal start to the day but we rugged up and went out. We hadn’t reached the river before we met a man who said, ‘Old Larry’s out in the centre pool’. What this meant was that the patriarch of the local platypus population was swimming about, very obviously and unconcernedly.
The place seemed to be crawling with the things. We later found out that this was supposed to be the best place in the world for seeing the platypus in the wild.
Posted April 19, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
Not just Nemrut Dağı. A wild and rocky province.
The opera had a small cast but the stage setting was immense.
Don Quixote's auditions for Sancho Panza were not going well.
What's brown and steams out of cows backwards?
The tanning salons in Adiyaman were down-to-earth
King Mithridates hosts 'How to look good naked'.
'This quicksand just cracks me up.'
The custodians of Nemrut Dağı were off their faces.
'Isn't it time you let the cat in, Antiochus?'
'Standards of care at the Bellevue home were under question.'
The zoo in Adiyaman could best be decribed as basic.
'I'm not impressed with immortality.'
Posted April 18, 2014 Posted by Adam in Uncategorized
I don’t seem to have any pictures from the city of Adana. I rented a car there once. I remember a nice stone bridge…
Yılankale is a relic from the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Built in the 11th and 12th centuries by Armenians fleeing a Selcuk invasion, it was later used by crusaders and many others.
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