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Streetwise
Knee-deep in realist, constructivist, and other such -ist theory, I haven’t had much time to reflect on the sea change that has occurred the past month. It’s hard to put thoughts to paper in a coherent way, so for now I’ll leave it to the professionals (i.e. Mohamed Choukri)
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An unpleasant looking man arrived, carrying some papers. He must have been the maths teacher. The headmaster asked him to take me and give me the arithmetic test. The day of judgement had arrived! I followed him to an empty classroom. He gave me a piece of chalk and dictated a list of numbers which I was supposed to write on the blackboard. The trouble was, I didn’t know how to write numbers with zero in the middle. I just about managed to fake it, though.
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