From the monthly archives:

December 2003

On National Identity

15 December 2003

When I was a little girl, my grandmother - who had been raised on the Royal Readers – used to ask us how we got so tall.  We’d always say we didn’t know.  She would say:  “Oh, you just growed, hey? Like Topsy?”
We inhabit a society that seems to believe (like Topsy) that things like culture [...]

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On Creativity

8 December 2003

Recently, I’ve been watching a series of documentaries on the making of different blockbuster films. The first set was the collection of “Making Of” addenda to the Indiana Jones DVD trilogy, in which Stephen Spielberg and George Lucas talked about the process of creating special effects without the aid of computer graphic imaging. [...]

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On the Mind

1 December 2003

List the things you consider markers of what is “Bahamian”. Go on. Put the newspaper right down, take up a notepad, and write down ten things.
Done?
OK. Now count and see how many of those things have anything to do with the mind.
Let’s see. Chances are you included Junkanoo, rake-n-scrape, [...]

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