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'If the past is a foreign country, then we are all exiles shipwrecked in the present. Our fate is fraught with risks. We need only think of The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Lord of the Flies, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, the Transit of Venus, The Commandant, and A Fringe of Leaves. Then turn our thoughts to Remembering Babylon and The Secret River. Different spaces - temporal, geographical, political, and textual -different risks. (p 164)
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- How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time. -W.G. Sebald
- Only the grass stands up to mark the dancing ring... - Judith Wright
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- Australia 1952 single work
- Voss : A Novel 1957 single work novel
- Flaws in the Glass : A Self-Portrait 1981 single work autobiography
- Remembering Babylon 1993 single work novel
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony 1917 single work novel
- The Secret River 2005 single work novel
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