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By Osman Haneef DISCLAIMER This is a work of fiction. Unless otherwise indicated, all the names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents in this book are either the product of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Including any resemblance to the author or the use of the author’s name. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." — She

By Osman Haneef The Radcliffe Camera takes pictures of the occupation tents protesting the War I returned to make my words soar, not sour like a sky-rat defecating on twisting spires the Rhodes monument inflames a backlash that the University will outlast, enduring like two statuesque legs of a King of Kings At a ball, a boy boasts he’s in Tolkien’s old room What does that have to do with you? she asks He insists on explaining US politics and its innate inferiority to h

By Raluca David -5 I awoke at the beginning of history, or certainly the time when Herodotus began to write about istoría . I awoke in this city of heat, where creatures do not hide from cold, where the body’s comfort allows the mind to wander. I learnt, for learning is the greatest virtue of these cloth-over-the-shoulder creatures here. I learnt that the town square stone is where lizards lie, where humans of knowledge orate, where men gather for ekklesia , their meetingpla