February 2012
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January 2012
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“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”
– Pablo Picasso
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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In bed with Simone
I go to bed a little earlier these days.
Sometimes I catch myself looking forward to bedtime during the afternoon. Maybe I’ll go before ten tonight, I catch myself thinking. It’s become a little ritualistic, I confess. I plump up my pillow, reach for the book on the bedside table, and we begin.
I’m reading Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir, the French...
July 2011
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June 2011
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Irresistable →
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Chris Womersley's Bereft: in praise of parsimony
Parsimony is not a word often used to describe a novel. For Chris Womersley’s Bereft (2010), I mean it as praise indeed.
Bereft tells the story of solder, Quinn Walker, returning from the First World War to the small NSW town where he grew up. Ten years earlier he had fled the town after witnessing a terrible crime for which he was blamed. The Australian bush becomes an almost surreal landscape...
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March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Our Great Leader →
That Kim-jong-il, he sure keeps a close eye on things. An entire website dedicated to the North Korean dictator and his gift for looking at stuff …
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“I’m not promiscuous. I just really like women.”
– Julian Assange
December 2010
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