and have to look it up every time I want to use it. But, herewith, links to some journalistic juvenilia – although, I was older than 18 when I wrote them. I have been cleaning up some folders and came across these juvenilian miscellania (juvenile miscellania sounds a bit harsh) and thought to post them at Groundwork.
You can’t get lost in the Samoosa Triangle
The joys of smoking (for Richard du Nooy)
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August 5th, 2008 @13:29 #
Ah bliss. A lovely witty scathing article on smoking. Thank you, Rustum. How anyone can quit after reading that, I don't know. I shall have another delicious Kent instead and think about all the disapproving faces of the anti-tobacco brigade puckered in self-righteous disgust. Puffffffff. Lovely.
August 5th, 2008 @14:10 #
Still smoking - Kent (the sportsman's fag) - despite all my good intentions.
August 5th, 2008 @14:26 #
Hey Sarah, thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it. Stay away from the samoosa article though; reportedly, it leads to serious onsets of the munchies.
August 5th, 2008 @14:42 #
Hey Richard, vasbyt. I used to smoke Kent in the late 1980s, when it was still a relatively obscure cigarette in SA, and was always enthused when I came across references to it (Tom Waits in song, some films). So, it has a good literary pedigree too.
August 5th, 2008 @14:51 #
I now have to keep going out for walks to smoke. I promised my kids I'd stop. I feel like a thief in the night.
August 5th, 2008 @15:23 #
Shame on you Richard! You'll have to explain to your kids the vagaries of addiction; they'll forgive you. But I had to laugh at your thief in the night, as that is how used to feel when I smoked while I should have been fasting.
August 5th, 2008 @15:41 #
I'm hoping this self-inflicted torture will offer further insight into the human condition as a whole. And that it will help my kids understand my dark side.