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← Back to all issuesGranta 91: Wish You Were Here
Autumn 2005
This issue includes Simon Gray in Barbados, rocking in his pram, smoking, remembering Alan Bates; Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on his father’s irritating dreams of human perfection; Ismail Kadar at the Great Wall of China (and Life); plus bulletins on our changing climate.
From this Issue
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Motley Notes
Ian Jack
‘We showed 'the spirit of London', the same spirit of our citizen forebears during their bombing by the Luftwaff.’
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When Skateboards Will Be Free
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh
‘My mother and father believe that the United States is destined one day to be engulfed in a socialist revolution.’
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Wish You Were Here
Various Contributors
’My plan is to sit here and get down some thoughts and memories of Alan.’
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The Great Wall
Ismail Kadaré
‘They've been making every imaginable special case for him for all eternity, they even sing hymns in his honour’.
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White Sands
Geoff Dyer
‘Now that we were out of danger it seemed possible that there had never been any danger.’
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The Ship at Anchor
Frederic Tuten
‘Those words made me wonder why I ever wanted to be an artist, why I ever wanted to live, though I never thought I wanted to die.’
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The Weather Where We Are
Various Contributors
‘In the South—by this I mean any part of the earth with trees that grow up instead of sideways—it's hard to see the climate changing’.
