GEIST Volume 25 · Number 90 · Fall 2013

features Alphabet Art A rabble-rousing grownup colouring Michał Kozłowski book, from Peter Daglish and the 37 Western Front art experimenters of the 1970s.

Postcolonial Bodies With the “natural superiority” of the David L. Chapman ideal western male physique, hunks 45 of the empire set out to colonize the world, one chiselled ab at a time.

Arctic Graffti The war reporter Paul Watson and Dan O’Brien the poet watch the Inuit hunter 50 butcher a seal. They’re good when they’re cooked, says the hunter. Stomach, heart. My boys just love it.

departments AnnMarie MacKinnon 4 In Camera Letters 5 Eve Corbel 15 True Funnies Geist staff & correspondents 57 Endnotes The Wall 62 Off the Shelf, Noted Elsewhere Meandricus 63 Puzzle Melissa Edwards 64 Caught Mapping

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notes & dispatches Stephen Osborne 8 Scandal Season Jill Boettger 10 City Under Water Michelle Fost 14 Long Distance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 17 treaties David Wisdom 22 UJ3RK5

findings 26 Texas Lac-Mégantic Wigrum Small Clothes The Dodgem Derby The Jacked-Up History of Newfoundland Harlem Nocturne What, Me Publish? Geist Sentence Invitational and more

columns Stephen Henighan 20 Afterlife of Culture Daniel Francis 52 National Dreams Alberto Manguel 54 City of Words

cover design: Eric Uhlich Geist is printed on paper certifed by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The inks are vegetable based.

cover image: from Universal Hunks, published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2013. David Prowse in his weightlifting jersey from the 1962 Commonwealth Games. His original passion was for bodybuilding, but in the 1960 Mr. Universe contest he was told by the chief judge that his ugly feet would always count against him in competition, so he took up weightlifting. Later, he went into flm and became the body of for the movies. He also trained for his role in Superman (1978). See darthvader-starwars.com.