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Light the fuse

Not the great New Zealand novel

An early work in progress dedicated to democratic Climate Polycrisis-mega­mobilisation and the Mahurangi

Dare to be wise!
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Front matter

Hitachi in-motion-charging trolley dump-truck

Light the Fuse 
Preface

Cimino | 30 Jun 2024
Principal premise of Light the fuse: Not the great New Zealand novel  is that humankind will only mobilise to salvage a remotely  survivable climate, if, and only if, the mobilisation needed is promptly, convincingly demon­strated. Beyond urgent, the imperative for mob…

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Salvatore Cimino, Te Papa Tongarewa

Light the Fuse 
Author’s note

by Cimino | 17 Jul 2024
Salvatore, was the given name of my mother’s father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He, however—Salvatore Michele Saverio Cimino, born on Capri—was not the son-of-a-Salvatore, but of the third son of a naval captain, Michele Cimino, and his  wife, Anna…

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Harriet Cole-Scuttle and Hudson U. Rock

Light the Fuse 
Acknowledgements

by Cimino | 25 Jul 2024
Home alone, her beloved Burmesies had dictated Sarah and I only tarry an hour or so, after Peter Skerman’s send-off. Heading northward—that much was apparent from the bearing of the sinking sun—we were only slightly disconcerted at how long Sarah’s phone…

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Winston Churchill inspecting units of the New Zealand Division with, clockwise, Bernard Freyberg, Bernard Montgomery; John Poston, driver

Light the Fuse
Prologue

Cimino | 3 April 2024
Readers of its unedifying history, in millennia to come, will scarcely credit that the Climate Polycrisis took so long to be convincingly named. Successive cohorts of historians will struggle to explain this phenomenon, and labour to quantify quite how critical a lacuna…

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 A Brief Introduction   |  Chapters 1–8 

Return to top of page  | Contents  | End notes

 

Disclosure The author of this novel modello is the secretary of both Mahurangi Action Incorporated and the Mahurangi Coastal Path Trust. The content published here, however, is that of the editorially independent, independently funded Mahurangi Magazine.

 

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