At Waterpoort in South Africa, a worker (left, below) chain-saws branches from a matoppie tree for fodder.

His was a character unlikened to any ever recorded in the annals of history. He was one of the noblest specimens of humanity that ever wore a jacket of grey. His soul was as pure as the driven snow, and his heart as clear as the crystal waters.

The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.

At the same time, the console cowboy's cybernavigation is based on the idea of physical and mental absorption into channels (those of the matrix)...