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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!
Kant

Chapters 1–8

Dorsey Burnette

chapter 1
Light the fuse, step back

by Cimino | 6 Jul 2024
Given Hutchins’ deterioration, it risks seeming a cruel question. Judging, however, he’ll welcome it, Cimino asks his old primary school friend—and author of thirty published books: “Hutch, are you currently writing?” His eyes light up. Enthusiastically, walking-frame…

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Norman Kirk

chapter 2
Recruiting an irresistible face

Cimino | 12 Jul 2024
Gifted his first chapter by Hutchins, 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 and faculties would easily render him fitter than the incumbent, for office…

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The Times They Are a Changin album cover

Child hunger in Aotearoa ends here, now

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…

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Cimino-conceived manhole cover lifter

Blessed are the toolmakers

Cimino | 19 Jul 2024
First tool suggested itself on the eve of the 50thanniversary 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…

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Adam Tooze

chapter 5
Losing the bloody The

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…

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Falmouth quay punt Curlew, off South Georgia

chapter 7
Aspirations of a dumb-arse

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…

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From cover of A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions

chapter 8 – Audacious
Hope, and happiness

by Cimino | 9 Sep 2024
Audacity to hope burned all-too briefly, in 2008. Barely elected, Barack Obama abjectly failed his followers by cravenly surrounding himself with the suddenly-out-of-a-job, hand-picked neoliberal phalanx poised to run Hillary Clinton’s stillborn administration. Hope…

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United States Troops, Queen Street, World War II

chapter 9 – Dire need to name
Mega-climate polycrisis

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…

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Launching of the SS Zebulon B. Vance

chapter 12 – Liberty kitchen
End to child hunger

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…

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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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