19th June
Confident that the Big Controller will give us a Deal, The Director goes off to film butterflies. We have no phone line yet and there's not much of a mobile signal around the house so I walk to the phone box to call France Telecom. I keep having to wait out the maximum time on hold before I'm cut off and have to start again.
There is a catchy little tune on that France Telecom hold system - it has formed a tinnitus-like loop in my head.
Having lived in the United States for a few years, I have either struggled
to understand democracy in practice or struggled to keep up with it
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Wen Gao in The Common Reader: As a child, I imagined America as a truly
democratic place where I could speak, disagree, and still listen. I even
used to qu...
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