This image of a solitary snail, is stylized from an original (see original pics below), taken by my 8-year-old earlier today. When you live in the London urban environment, sightings such as a few snails after rain, can be quite major, especially to a child. He ran in earlier today saying excitedly how he'd seen snails by a plant outside. So I gave him my camera and said: well go and snap them. Sure enough, he came back with images I thought were rather accomplished, for his age - especially as he took them with no supervision whatsoever. A budding nature photographer?
Africa and the Tyranny of the Cult of Mediocrity - Helen Grange
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It is a piercing indictment of African liberation sensibility when, like
some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses
returns ...
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