The Rake

MAGNUM OPUS

The conflict of nature and science has long permeated legislative halls, denominational pews and the private domains of people’s beliefs. Technology has slowed down our natural evolutionary progression and draws our bodies away from our primitive selves and the faculties of nature. Yet from time to time, we see the two work in harmony, enhancing each other and proving themselves to be unassailable bedfellows. One example of this was recently unveiled in the Dominican Republic.

In I have waxed lyrical about the tobacco grown in the Vuelta Abajo in Cuba. The awesome transformative effects of a cigar have for many years given me pause for thought and a chance to be still and think. I have associated Cuba with this opportunity

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