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David J. MacKinnon

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David J. MacKinnon is a Sorbonne graduate in history, a member of two law societies and has translated for the International Criminal Tribunals of Rwanda,the Hague & Yugoslavia. He is co-founder of the Long March to Rome, an indigenous-led mission seeking repeal of the Papal Bulls of Discovery. In earlier days, he worked as oil field roughneck, toilet factory worker, longshoreman and morgue attendant. He has walked the ancient Santiago de Compostela pilgrim's trail and to Chartres several times. A Voluntary Crucifixion, MacKinnon's memoirs, recounts the tale of his adventures and misadventures from a year of living dangerously in post-Tiananmen Hong Kong to surviving tinpot dictatorships in various ports of call in the Indian Ocean and life ...more

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	Blaise Cendrars Speaks... by David J. MacKinnon (Goodreads Author) (Translator), Jim Christy (Editor) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A Voluntary Crucifixion – Jim Christy, The Ormsby Review

If you’ve ever heard of David MacKinnon, where have you been? Certainly not around the literary scene anywhere in Canada, including his native British Columbia, even though he is arguably one of the best writers in the Province – and I’ll argue it.

If you know him as a writer you must be familiar with the Parisian literary world because he has had novels brought out to acclaim in Europe with Édit

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“I had to learn to think, feel and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life-preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life-preserver which sinks them.”
― Henry Miller

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