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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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Appendices

Waiwera Wharf, excursioners boarding

appendix 1
Buy Waiwera

Cimino | 21 Aug 2023
Demolition of the derelict Waiwera pools infrastructure was inevitable. However, the fate of the revered hot mineral pools is potentially far more miserable for the memories of the millions of Aucklanders who’d ever made it their mecca. For what now feels an eternity…

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Waiwera–Mahurangi, aerial

appendix 2
Buy Waiwera plan b or…

Cimino | 5 October 2023
Myriad reasons make it preferable, for Buy Waiwera plan b, to instead be: Buy Waiweraphase 2. That said, should the Buy Waiwera moonshot fail to make it to the launch pad, an end-to-end Mahurangi Coastal Path would make for a stunningly salubrious plan b. Buy

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Mahurangi Coastal Path map

appendix 3
Coastal path summary

Light the Fuse – Appendix 3
Coastal Path and the Greater Mahurangi Regional Park, surely, was the most comprehensive submission Auckland Council could have hoped to receive in response to its draft management plan. It details how the regional parks can perform their primary…

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Late Paleozoic icehouse to Anthropocene epoch stratigraphical chart

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End notes

Cimino | 3 Jul 2024
Notes nor end notes are not normally expected in a novel, much less a magazine. But not only is Light the Fuse : Not the Great New Zealand Novel  not your ordinary novel, it is part-factual, part-counterfactual, part future-factual-conditional; and the Mahurangi

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 Chapters 1–8

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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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