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A British politician once remarked that anyone who can't simultaneously believe in two completely contradictory propositions simply lacks a bit of imagination.

The comment came to mind after I got back two of the literary competition results for the next book that I will be working at some as yet unnamed period in the future. Vagueness about these plans is the direct result that the current book is plodding along like an old nag down a country road with no intention of being hurried.

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As the Democratic party here at home flails about chanting eenie, meenie, minie, moe between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the thought does occur that things could be worse.

For instance, we could all be in Zimbabwe where there is no election suspense any longer for that country's run-off race between President-for-Life Robert Mugabe and Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Yes, Grace Mugabe, irascible Bob's marital squeeze and usually best known for reserving one of the Air Zimbabwe's jets on permanent standby for her luxury shopping trips to Paris, said that Tsvangirai is dreaming if he thinks he will ever be president.

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So the battle between Barack Obama and the T-64 solid metal chassis Terminator nicknamed Hillary continues.

Yep, this primary is beginning to remind me of the great scenes at the end of Terminator when the half-blown up skeleton with the glowing red eyes is crawling across the floor with its hands trying to off Linda Hamilton. All you need to do to complete the scenario is to image Barack Obama fleeing through the machinery going  "eek, eek" as the relentless metal hand tries to grab his ankle.

I don't know, maybe it was someplace around South Carolina that Hillary had to look in the mirror and carve out her damaged eye with an exacto knife. Certainly, it was about that point the first calls for her to drop out of the race popped up. And like Schwarzenegger, she thought about it for a bit before her CPU latched onto the proper response of "Fuck you, asshole."

Anyway, what is it going to take to wrap this deal up?  Hillary's latest strategy seems to be hoping that someone offs Barack but two can play that game. Here a young Obama supporter aims his own knock out punch. 

Ah yes, heavy postings have bogged down the blog so it's time to take a sharp look at the literary world.

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"Somewhere in there is a perfect manuscript. For another agent."

My second evening at the farmhouse in the Kenya highlands was really my first as far as making plans went. True, I had arrived the day before after a four hour drive up from Nairobi but as coincidence would have it, I had arrived just a couple of days after Petra formally took ownership of the house. She had been connected to the house for several years but had been running another, more rustic guesthouse up till then so Sunday we hadn't had much of a chance to talk.

But Monday evening while we sat on her front veranda drinking sundowners and watching the sun sink behind the Aberdares, she outlined an agenda of walking tours, some game drives and then maybe seeing Nyeri with a quick trip to Lake Naivasha. Oh yeah, and the Aberdares Country Club.

When she paused to see what my reaction was, the only thing I could think to say was a mystified, "What's the point?"

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