Originally the diary of 4 months spent in Antarctica working as a documentary film sound recordist, this blog has evolved into an online repository for the thoughts, travels and trivia of the writer Richard Fleming. For McMurdo Station, Antarctica, and polar exploration, see August through December of '06. Currently you are likely to find in these pages chronicles of my actual and literary meanderings, as well as notes on my many other passions. Also, did I mention I wrote a book?
10/01/2006
Mactown Evening
Night is slipping through our fingers. Already the sun rises in the south-east, well before I rise, and then spends a long day describing a horseshoe-shaped arc before sliding down behind the Royal Society Mountains to the west and south-west. Soon it won't go down at all, and will begin to eliptically spiral upwards in ever-tighter circles over our head. From our perspective at this high latitude every shadow becomes a sort of solar clock; the peak height of the sun's rise easy to observe and marking midday.
About 11PM last night
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Richard!
Daniel B here [not in brooklyn but ft. worth for a week]. Adam V. and I were just speaking fondly of you. We miss you and are forced to look at your utube haircut to see our dear friend.
I still have a house warming pressie for you and your damn red hook home, so call me when you get back - i've moved and schlepped it from domicile to domicile like and imbicile.
donbeastranger, dB
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