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circuitously, precipitate the Great Mobilisation
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Cimino | 6 Jul 2024
Given Hutch’s deterioration, it risks seeming a cruel question. Judging, however, he’ll welcome it, Cimino asks his old primary school friend—and author of a round forty published books: “Hutch, are you currently writing?” His eyes light up. Enthusiastically, walking-
Cimino | 12 Jul 2024
Gifted his first chapter by Hutch, Cimino suddenly realises he’s been gifted his second, by Biden. The previous day, on their way home from visiting a 92-year-old friend whose face, voice, and faculties, would render him far fitter than the incumbent, for…
Cimino | 14 Jul 2024
Listening to his youngest, ‘waiting house’ roommate crying himself to sleep broke Cimino’s heart. The boy was more than 500 kilometres from his East Coast hill country sheep station home. His mother could not have had the slightest notion of the privations visited on…
Cimino | 19 Jul 2024
First tool suggested itself on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Auckland Regional Parks. Cimino had convinced his fellow Friends of Regional Parks committee members that it was an auspicious time to propose a 50-year plan for the 41 000-hectare…
Cimino | 7 Aug 2024
Opportunist, along with perfectionist, were just two of the many terms Cimino, as a child, had misapprehended as entirely laudatory attributes—Cimino and a sibling being, almost certainly, each somewhere along the autistic continuum. Although his father, Claud…
Cimino | 31 Jul 2024
Legendary Rodney Times chief reporter Jack Keys, was sound asleep in the directors chair he’d availed himself. In the lunchtime lull, it had been cool and peaceful in the old-school square tent pitched on the sand to shade the stalwarts who’d manically typed certificates for…
Cimino | 25 Jul 2024
One, final year at a campus more hallowed than a freshly built district high school plus prefabs didn’t dramatically deepen Cimino’s education. Mount Albert Grammar, at the time, wasn’t even excelling in its previous one-claim-to-fame—rowing—down from its…
Cimino | 1 May 2025
Cimino, when reflecting on the vast bulk of his compatriots’ failure to register even a flicker of excitement for the Great Mobilisation, recalls his hideous premonition as to how anthropogenic global heating could all too predictably play out. It was…
Cimino | 1 June 2025
Wouldn’t in-step marching—Cimino found himself wondering—better demonstrate the demand for, or participation in, the Great Mobilisation? Musing over his near-future-novel concept while focussed on fashioning a half-plausible Day of…
Cimino | 9 Jul 2024
By its first centennial, all bets are off as to what the ever-deepening, mega-climate polycrisis will be being called, much less by the time its first millenniala 1000th anniversary or its celebration. First known, adjectival use recorded 1660 rolls round. Cimino, in 2024, has adopted Climate Polycrisis, fully cognisant of the possibility that, by the end of…
Cimino | 21 Jul 2024
Food, clothing, shelter, and something to hope for—to paraphrase Kirk. First for a few, and now for generations, since 1984 when the Labour Party set about with its secret, state-destroying agenda, increasing numbers of New Zealand children have gone…
Cimino | 13 Jun 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 had come up with the wisecrack ver…
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