Search Results: Volcanoes
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Allan Padgett
- 01 March 2017
Notes that humans cannot hear include the sound of thylacines crying in a van diemen forest, a dodo's plaintive shuffle on a nearshore kiwi island, a mammoth's woolly orgasm on an ecstatic arctic tundra, an esperance dog weed's silent transpiration, the rumbles of a gastric brooding frog giving birth by burping - these things are far too late for caring. Things we need to see and taste include the surging milk of human kindness, the euphoric rainbow of random caring - these would make a nice day nicer.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 January 2011
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The furore that erupted when Chinese-American mother Amy Chua accused Westerners of being too soft on their children masks a subtle sharpening of middle class parental expectations in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 22 December 2010
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Despair, Damnation, and Capital Punishment are my Christmas fare this year. During my research into literary executions, I was shocked to find so few cases where they were opposed on Christian grounds, and so many examples of Christian acceptance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Some volcanoes are dead bigtime .. Be careful: Don't go near them .. They spit
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 19 May 2010
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If Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erruption was disruptive, its cousin Katla may have worse in store. Volcanoes, emanating a kind of preternatural, primal,
patience, are landlords whose unchanging message is: you are renting; you
haven't bought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Delia Falconer
- 06 July 2006
Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 29 April 2006
I haven’t decided what I will do in my next life although the people who organise these things have been sending me reminders about it for the past two years.
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