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24 timezones in a single day, on Christmas Eve

10:46 hrs – Vatican City, Italy

The Holy Father receives his first cheque card as part of a campaign to modernise the Vatican. He insists on leaving his quarters in the early evening alone, under cover, to fetch money all by himself.

09:46 hrs – London, UK

London – Fetter Lane cobblestones upturned. Paper garbage. I pick it up, surprising myself. I’m on my way to work. My boss, Mr Cobsworth Mather can kiss my rosy ass.

08:46 hrs – Praia, Cape Verde

The fool packed a sand bar for lunch and a drinks of herb salt. But whence he went to play along the rainbow warrior, whom only he could see, who’d admire the mud cakes he’d baked?

07:46 Nuuk, Greenland

The people queued up to get their parcels or post them as they had always done. Nobody thought of bending the line into a coil so that the people could warm up.

06:46 hrs – La Plata, Argentina

When the winter holidays began, mother stood by the window in the living room for long periods of time, a hot cup of tea in hand, sipping it in long intervals.

05:46 St Johns, Newfoundland

He wore a very ugly tie today and enjoyed the attention and the disbelief that moved across Sedna’s face like a moth.

04:46 hrs – Habana, Cuba

I look out the window of my hut at las putas, and I stroke my cock, and there’s no ambiguity there. Ambiguity is the death of the revolution.

03:46 a.m. – Houston, Texas

At that moment he knows that he’s in a giant anthill, that he’s walking towards his grave and that he must get out of here to stay alive as fast as he can.

02:46 Santa Fe, New Mexico

Goose is in the oven, green and red cabbage on the stove, boiling away, dumplings ready wrapped in warm towels. Two of the kids have been charged with setting the table.

01:46 – San Diego, California

The woman drifted past me like a specter but I wasn’t drunk and I knew that she was real. As I looked, she turned round, came back and stood in front of me just like you now.