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Cimino | 11 July 2025
After the better part of a lifetime, that its utterance seldom evokes so much as a suppressed guffaw, still surprises Cimino: “It’s bad luck to be superstitious.” Having coined the witticism in his youth, Cimino doesn’t doubt dozens have come up with the wisecrack ver-…
Cimino | 3 Jul 2024
Notes nor end notes are not normally expected in a novel, much less a magazine. But not only is Light the Fuse : Not the Great New Zealand Novel not your ordinary novel, it is part-factual, part-counterfactual, part future-factual-conditional; and the Mahurangi…
Cimino | 21 Aug 2023
Demolition of the derelict Waiwera pools infrastructure was inevitable. However, the fate of the revered hot mineral pools is potentially far more miserable for the memories of the millions of Aucklanders who’d ever made it their mecca. For what now feels an eternity…
Cimino | 5 October 2023
Myriad reasons make it preferable, for Buy Waiwera plan b, to instead be: Buy Waiwera – phase 2. That said, should the Buy Waiwera moonshot fail to make it to the launch pad, an end-to-end Mahurangi Coastal Path would make for a stunningly salubrious plan b. Buy…
Light the Fuse – Appendix 3
Coastal Path and the Greater Mahurangi Regional Park, surely, was the most comprehensive submission Auckland Council could have hoped to receive in response to its draft management plan. It details how the regional parks can perform their primary…
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