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by 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…
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…
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…
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…
by 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…
by 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…
by 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…
by 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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