You Gotta Love Rejection to Write a Book.

The following just in from the Peter Miller Agency in New York:

Dear James,

Thanks so much for chance to review your gripping story. I was fascinated and moved by many aspects of it, but in the end, I felt the writing fell a little short of illuminating this important story. This is a very subjective view, so I encourage you to continue writing and submitting to other representatives. Keep at it—you will get
there.

Warm Regards…

Guess that means I better write the last 25 000 words, go back to the beginning, and start polishing...

Mad Racists and Linkage

A Blogger quickly faces the issue of censorship. I’ve had one comment on this Blog, and it was from a mad racist, an American, in a response to the De la Rey post and the reference to Steve Biko and mad racists. I censored it, because I will not become a forum for mad racists. I was conscripted into the South African army in 1980, and if I learnt one thing, it is that racism is evil. On the other hand, one does not want to rule things out. The Internet, the linkage, is, potentially, humankind falling into consciousness. So I’m thinking of starting a new link category: The Real South Africa? And linking to sites like Kak Duidelik.

More Intelligent Life on the Internet

Ivan Vladislavic accepts the Alan Paton non-fiction award at the Cape Town Book Fair.

Intelligent Life Discovered on Internet

I was feeling a little down this morning, it being June 16, season of strikes and hollow untruthfulness. (Cf J Keats) Then I made an extraordinary discovery. I think I might have proved the existence of intelligent life on the internet. And it’s profoundly South African.

"Imitation is the sincerest form...

... of television." - Fred Allen.

The South African who freed Cuba

1958: Ronald Herbolt, a twenty one year old Capetonian, was working on the cargo ship Constantia. The vessel docked in Cuba to load sugar just as the Cuban Revolution was reaching its climax. Fraternising with members of Fidel Castro's Rebel Army, Ronald was inspired. He left the Constantia to help Fidel and Che fight the Batista dictatorship. After the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis, Ronald was effectively in exile...

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Sorted

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