Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett (1944-2022) is a founding co-editor of dooneyscafe.com. He's the author of many books, including "Cambodia: A book for people who find television too slow" (1986), "Gender Wars" (1994), "Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown" (2003), "Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and other Non-Globalized People, Places, and Ideas" (2003) and "Human Happiness" (2011).
The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 7): The History of the Knowable World
Brian Fawcett gets to a pig farm in Sussex, England the long way around. He goes through a brain glitch, the Visigoths’ sack of Rome, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the British Museum Reading Room. Ch. 7 of The Sussex Variations traverses the History of the Knowable World.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 6): Intelligence, Personality, Personhood, Being, and some genuine Woo-Woo
On a Sussex pig farm in 1963, Brian Fawcett is thinking about the intelligence of pigs, dogs, humans, and nuclear missiles.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 5): Courage, Bravado, or Daring
In Ch. 5 of Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations,” there’s courage, war, character and a dying boar.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 4): Concentration, and Testicles
Brian Fawcett learns about the gory details of life on the farm. Ch. 4 of “The Sussex Variations.”
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 3): Females and Males
Brian Fawcett learns about males and females, both human and porcine, on a pig farm in Sussex, England in the early 1960s.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 2): Stress, Distress, and the Sussex Downs
Brian Fawcett’s “Sussex Variations, or Two Boars,” Ch. 2. People feel distress. So do pigs. Living and learning on an English farm.
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The Sussex Variations, or Two Boars (Ch. 1): Luck, Generosity and the Rules
Brian Fawcett, age 18, from northern British Columbia, arrives at his uncle’s and aunt’s pig farm in Sussex, England, and comes-of-age as two 400-pound boars charge into battle.
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The trouble with Stanley Tucci’s Taste (and the right way to make tomato sauce)
Brian Fawcett on how to make Euclid Avenue Tomato Sauce. Everything you need to know to get it right.
Read MoreRIP Gerard F. Farry
In mid-January of this year, 2021, Gerard Farry died in Vancouver at the age of 92. He wasn’t the sort of man who’d naturally be familiar to the readers of this website; he had been the director of urban planning for Greater Vancouver during the 1970s and 1980s, which was the heyday of urban master…
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