Mangoes - are not cigarettes

-Richard Tipping

Yesterday for brekky I had one of my most favourite things, a mango. Most people won't realise that I love mangoes so intensely because I rarely ate them while in the US. I was always finding that my expectations were not met by my beloved fleshy fruit, so I ceased eating them. Not so yesterday, I ate one and that mango was exceptional. It's juice was sweetened to perfection and it's flesh so smooth it was creamy. It was a heavenly thing to eat, and I have to admit that had my roommate walked in on my blissful enjoyment of the pit I might have been a tad embarrassed, thankfully that didn't happen.

It did bring to mind Dylan Moran's experience with a chocolate cake in France and one of my favourite poems, Mangoes by Richard Tipping. I first came in contact with it at an exhibit at the MCA in Sydney.

artpoem property of Richard Tipping, more of his work can be found @

I must say that when I eat a mango this poem does run through my mind and I think it is the best way to explain my mango experience yesterday morning.

I of course bought two. 

The other one lies in wait to be devoured.

IN AUSTRALIA

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ps- we're having a Black Books party tonight, brilliant.

WHY?

is eveyone so confident in me? ARE YOU NUTS?

what am i about to do in two weeks - how is this going to work? omg

I cannot live without books.

-Thomas Jefferson

Films as well. However heaps of either rapidly take up weight and space in my allotted suitcases. Whats a Narrative media junkie to do? Break it down to an essential number or weight? I'm already holding off purchasing The Seven Pillars of Wisdom for when I get to oz, though reading it on the plane would be idyllic because Ulysses is one monolith enough.

I get the first few in and then it becomes a muddle of philosophy vs prose vs poetry vs art vs size. And then I also come back to the question of is there something that is not appropriate to read on the plane? What if I paper wrap the cover like they do in Japan? Can I bring that very old book with the brilliant paper as a possible future art project? Where do sketch books fit into this? Ahgh.