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Author: Jennifer Compton

ARTS AND CULTURE

Friday sex and family
- Margaret McCarthy | Jennifer Compton
- 09 August 2011
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There are weary smiling workers recovering from a Thursday night event. There are men planning this, the second weekend, with their family. There are married couples — one in the throes of giving up hope of being touched, the other working hard to ensure the weekend is chaste.
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On the waterfront in Genoa
- Helen Koukoutsis and Jennifer Compton
- 25 January 2011
A young man, made of ebony, from Senegal or Somalia or the Côte d'Ivoire, sat down beside me gracefully… I gave him the twenty euro that I had to hand. Stammering, ill at ease, he asked me what I had in mind.
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Maori for cannibal
- Jennifer Compton
- 27 January 2009
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There was a custom for Maori warriors to eat the enemy they killed in battle. This was called long pig because it tastes like pork but the bones are longer.
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Tragedy walks through their doors
- Jennifer Compton
- 05 August 2008
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He told me it was called the Grievance Room. I looked askance ... He offered me the use of their Spirituality Centre. I declined. But made sure of their Smoke Zone.
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Figments of my imagination
- Jennifer Compton
- 21 April 2006
Jennifer Compton on the creative life.
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