Of Bars and Bounty Hunters

There is only one other way one can step into the shoes of a biological scientist without having to read a single word off of a biology textbook or spend years trying to find out why there still isn’t an easier way to pronounce scientific words like paracetamol or Mitochondria. For years now, mere writers have managed to crack the age-old secret to artificial reproduction with just the simple use of a ball-point pen, sheet of some lined paper and some unbridled, never-before-seen characterization. Rhodes University student and creator of fictional character ‘Jazrazor’ Daniel Soverall knows the secret, and he is about to let us in on it.

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‘Lessons on Living’. (A response to Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays With Morrie)

Dear Morrie

I find it necessary to tell you that the first word of this letter was written on a Tuesday evening. This was not done with the intention of encroaching upon traditions originally yours and Mitch’s, but as means to figuratively pencil myself into the attendance register of your class on ‘The meaning to life’.

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