Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Low life | 21 May 2015

The tireless, self-confident fashion in which they go about their business fills me with admiration

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issue 23 May 2015

From somewhere in the tree canopy, a nightingale song. The virtuoso trilling and warbling, the underwater bubbling, the teetering on the brink before the tumbling cascade. I’m wearing turquoise Speedo swimming shorts and a panama hat and lying on a terrace lounger. In my hand, a tumbler of the local rosé, one ice cube.

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