An Excerpt From Stuck In The Middle: Dissenting Views of
Winnipeg    Here’s an excerpt from my new book Stuck In The
Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg. Photos by Bryan Scott
(hey, that’s me), text by Bartley Kives, and a foreword by John
K. Samson. Now available in stores and online.   For the sake of
an exercise, pretend you’re a god. You can go anywhere you want,
by any mode of transportation you desire. What you’re most
likely to desire is to travel as far away as possible from the
coastlines of the continents, where the vast majority of
humanity resides. This is a logical desire, as all gods consider
homo sapiens a nuisance, if not a pest species.  In geographic
terms, they call such a place a pole of inaccessibility — the
farthest location you can travel from any coast. In Eurasia,
discriminating deities will wind up in the Gurbantºnggºt Desert,
an arid patch of western China’s Xinjiang province, a few
kilometres from the Kazakh border. In South America,
misanthropic multi-dimensional beings may escap