place essay

• 1. it is six oclock in the morning on the island of hong kong
• 2. soft quiet in the apartment
• 3. flat, silver waters of the south china sea
• 4. son of the eastern star
• 5. in a world of insecurity, ambition and ego
• 6. dying from napalm burns on a hillside in eritera how his voice cried out growing evermore faint as the wind blew dust into his wounds
• 7. in menongue, southern angolia, juste, two years old and blind, dying from malnutrition
• 8. in a ransacked classroom
• 9. it begins 35 years ago in a big city on a january morning
• 10. bigger and noisier than the easy streets and gentle hills of her distant home
• 11. on his own in a one room flat
• 12. across the infinity between the living and the dead