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Notebook

Fear, loneliness and nostalgia: a return to Johannesburg

Justin Cartwright’s South African notebook

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

24 October 2015

9:00 AM

Oddly enough, the cabin service people on the plane are constantly eating during the night, helping themselves to the first-class snacks. They are bulging out of their uniforms. They cannot pass each other in the aisles without difficulty. This is the sort of thing you notice during a long flight; at least the sort of thing I notice.

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