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'I MEANT TO TELL Gerald Murnane about the winter’s month I’d recently spent writing in an old fish factory in northern Iceland. But within minutes of him welcoming me into the Men’s Shed in his home town of Goroke, in Victoria’s Wimmera region, he said something that caused me to put aside what I’d come to say.' (Introduction)