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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Fiona Douglas
- 30 June 2010
18 Comments
It occurred to me to approach my
school English teacher. This would be normal
enough, if not for the fact that she had been my teacher some three
decades prior. From the fog of my depression medication I somehow found my
phone and emailed her from my bed.
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He pushed the bulges of his shoulder blades .. into the worn padding and realised how stooped he was — too much sitting, hunching forward in expectation? .. No crane would admit to a neck like that! .. But skin still smooth, like his father's, in his nineties what's more.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Emily Millane
- 25 June 2010
7 Comments
In early 2008, 89 per cent of us thought Rudd to be a 'man of vision'. Recall his essay on Bonhoeffer in The
Monthly; the promise of a politics of decency and equality; the Apology; the ideas
summit. After that it all goes a bit foggy.
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In 1975, during a near death experience, Cat Stevens called out to God. 'The moment I became a Muslim I found peace,' says the man now known as Yusuf Islam. He appears, solitary at the microphone, and begins an older man's
rendition of a younger man's songs.
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Does anybody think we'll go away from here
just because they've sanctioned us and breached us, preached at us,
acquired our country, stolen our yesterdays, the silk and hardy timbers
of them ..
Do they really think they've crushed our silvers and our souls by
managing our sturdy little incomes?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in
its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to
conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than
biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 16 June 2010
1 Comment
He was horribly contorted. His head was bent over his right shoulder as
if being crushed down. The angle of the head concealed the right ear and enforced a distortion of his mouth
and right eye. You don't stare at such afflicted people so I gazed elsewhere until
he was on the move.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Mitchell and Kathryn Hamann
- 15 June 2010
1 Comment
she migrates the long, thin pole around the recycling dumpster. Beer bottles clink, aluminium cans become metal kebabs ... on the road: her set eyes read the worlds of nature — the sky as upturned colander, shaking droplets of rain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexander Lewis
- 11 June 2010
1 Comment
Amartya Sen suggests we might never know what perfect justice is, but we
certainly know injustice when we see it. Instead of giving a tired rehash of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Sen uses vibrant, colourful examples from history, philosophy, and
literature, in particular from the Indian tradition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 June 2010
4 Comments
Nicky is curled up asleep on the couch. She is an innocent, and we feel affection for her. But as the camera pans around, we realise we have been sharing Andrew's leering perspective. The scene foreshadows Animal Kingdom's most appalling atrocity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Garner
- 09 June 2010
11 Comments
I used to be a worker. I left school at 15 and worked till I
was 45. But it now
seems that I was someone else then. Am I disabled? Or just lazy? Down the street I see
workers in overalls, and for some reason I can't look them in the eye.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier and Jeff Klooger
- 08 June 2010
1 Comment
Since furniture regained its proper size .. and animals ceased to speak .. since teapots evicted rodents .. and the Queen became so very nice .. I find myself looking back ... Everything now is normaler and normaler
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