The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday December 18th, 2021 – United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
The Wrong World #thoughts by Jan Sand
There is an old story of a scientist who invented a machine to transfer consciousness. When his apparatus was complete he had no convenient subject but spotted a centipede on the floor and scooped it up and dropped it into the receiver section. He then put on the headset to dispatch his consciousness. He pressed the activation switch and suddenly discovered himself looking up at his immobile body.
“Hurray!” he thought, “It works.” Then he tried to move the centipede into the light beam that would reverse the process. He moved the first foot and then found he couldn’t figure which other foot to move. The story leaves him immobile, frozen in place. He never gets to figure out which other foot to move to get back into himself.
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“A prayer for the dementia of the flesh” #poem by Abigail George
‘The flame in the snow’, in the field,
In the wild ‘song of songs’ wilderness of
The green sea. Its energy poured itself
Into me and names whispered secrets of men
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“Brinkmanship” #ShortStory By Ian C Smith
We lived on our wits and savings then, a working holiday, her keener on working than holidaying. Exploring London’s vast echoing age, shadows tempting after Australia’s gaudy glare, I stopped at blue historical plaques signifying that famous people spent parts of their lives there, thrilled chancing upon Dickens’ Bleeding Heart Yard. I read ancient manuscripts in the British Museum, hoarding these days like precious jewels for the future. We also kept hearing an old hit by Procol Harum, the tune everywhere, even the front upstairs seat of a red bus, as if an anthem borne on the Thames tide.
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Ephemera 21#32 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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