Amanda Riddell
To her
Crying myself to sleep, weeping to console myself beyond the safety of plausible deniability. The charades of youth are gone. The flirty...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 311 min read
Another bad poem
Unusual phrases From daily life. Recontextualised by precious punctuation. Gimmicks Like This That Make People Think They're Smart. ...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 291 min read
Il lavoro dei pazzi
Waking up each morning, With a fuzzy brain. Feeling the pain of those Quetiapine pills. They help me sleep, But I feel dead inside....
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 263 min read
Trip to Rapallo (Andrew) New Year's Eve 2002
Barabara, an American who Philippa met at the Benvenuto Club, has moved to Rapallo for a couple of months before returning to America...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 239 min read
Trip to Pisa (Pippa) 7-8 June 2002
We've finally managed to feel settled enough to go exploring a bit. Andy had to go to Pisa University to look at an installation of their...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 203 min read
Bergamo trip (Andrew) 25 January 2003
Having spent several wet weekends in a row at home, we were determined that this weekend, rain or shine, we would go and visit somewhere....
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 192 min read
An Evening in Andora (Stephen) ... 7 July 2002
This is the same day as the Monaco trip, but has much more detail. As for shifting narratives: that's literally my thing. I'm pretty...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 195 min read
Trip to Como (Andrew) ... May 26, 2002
We had decided that we would go and see 'the lakes'. There are several lakes north of Milan, that come down from the Alps. They are...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 191 min read
Fantasia Italiana: Phillip's visit
My sisters, Athena and Dee (Aphrodite), weren't able to come to Italy, but we had several relatives visit. My aunt Anne and my maternal...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 148 min read
Dubai trip - Andrew's perspective
Andrew Riddell was my father, and Portrait of a Knight is dedicated to him. We all wrote trip journals, and this was his journal of the...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 141 min read
Trip to Monaco
Albenga was where the second ATKK office was, so my Dad visited there often. My memory of Albenga was that it had the best gelato of...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 131 min read
The back channels
Well, when I was dealing with the fuzz (hippie word for police), or with the Prime Minister, the subterfuge made sense and I personally...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 123 min read
Trip to Italy
An email I sent to a friend from Christchurch who was also very brainy. Trimmed it, but kept the typos. Hi Nathaniel I'll start from my...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 121 min read
Garden of Man
The flowers which lie on the grass where the trees which fly into the sky start here. The flowing lakes sit in the grass. The grass...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 101 min read
Risk-averse Pākehā
I sat typing on my screen, Knowing that they would read my anguished cries. Those wise greyhairs and ageing Gen Xers. Searching for the...
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Amanda Riddell
Oct 93 min read
A Temporary Oasis
2230. The Sultan of Aotearoa is dying. In a world of catastrophic climate change, Aotearoa is the oasis. A beacon of humanity in an...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 291 min read
The realm of darkness
I thought of death As I lay dying, Trying desperately To cling to her. That vibrant ray of new hope: emerging then fading. In: the...
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Amanda Riddell
Sep 241 min read
The mouth of the fish
the mist rolled over the moors of the long white cloud, near the mouth of the fish, giving one a moment's pause. colonial symbols built...
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Amanda Riddell
Aug 195 min read
Just Like Yesterday - Part 8
Caliope liked to think of herself as a local, and in many respects she was, but she wasn't a New Zealand-born Chinese descended from the...
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Amanda Riddell
Aug 71 min read
A cinquain
Speaking like machines, Seeking lies built from the old-fashioned binary. Building deepfake scenes, Saying the ends justify the means,...
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