Monthly Archives: January 2018
A song for Australia Day
It was Australia Day on January 26th, so there’s a lot of chest-thumping nationalism going on. Here’s Gert’s contribution, an extract from that great Australian work by Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding.
Graeme Macrae Burnet: The Accident On The A35
With time I become lazy
James Lasdun: The Fall Guy
Wruxled!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-02/office-language-corporate-speak-how-to-get-a-payrise/9298828
Kate Burridge has some suggestions for fresh phrases to take back to the workplace to replace the tired old moving forward, hitting the ground running, drilling down, etc.
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Saga Land The island of stories at the edge of the world. Richard Fidler and Kari Gislason
I’ve begun studying Icelandic, and I believe that the literature produced during the Middle Ages in that remote island close to the Arctic Circle is one of the most important in the world.
Jose Luis Borges
Talk about a feast!
“Golly! Pork-pie and chocolate cake, sardines and Nestlé’s milk, chocolate and peppermint creams, tinned pineapple and ginger-beer!” said Janet. Talk about a feast! I bet this beats the upper third’s feast hollow! Come on – let’s begin!”
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The Storm Before The Storm
While producing ‘The History Of Rome’ I was asked the same set of questions over and over again: Is America Rome? Is the United States following a similar historical trajectory? Mike Duncan says in the introduction to The Storm Before The Storm.
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