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This text published at Global Short Story Project in Another Magazine’s Document and in a pullout section of Moleskine 2010.
Eight writers, four continents, two hemispheres, one moment in time: for this issue of Document, loosely based around the theme of travel, we invited some of the most interesting writers at work today, positioned all over the world, to write about what they could see from their desks, at exactly the same time: 12 noon GMT, November 27. A snapshot, a feeling of renewed optimism, a sense of something coming together just for an instant, a group of disparate people working together; welcome to a shared point of view…
Milton Hatoum
between São Paulo and Manaus, Brazil
Latitude: 23˚31’, south. Longitude: 46˚ 31’, west.
10am, November 27, 2008
30 metres up, in an apartment on São Paulo’s west side, I see a grey or blue sky over the greatest metropolis of South America. Thousands of road vehicles travel the river Pinheiros’s embankments every hour, but at this moment, midday, there is an unending queue of stationary cars and lorries. Beside the river, on the University of São Paulo’s vast campus, I see the clock tower, and further on, the beautiful, miniature building of the Architecture and Urban [...]
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