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Today crossed the old abandoned airport towed by a dog I felt the mist rising all around and how the sun burned a white hole in the dense white sky: people have erected little winter ...read more
The dog and I went out for a late night walk. The rest of the world is his toilet. It is snowing! It must have been snowing now several hours. The purity general, all over ...read more
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Good god, I just voted. By email in Queensland, which is currently in the grip of a miniature narcissist who's funding his own higher-than-POTUS salary increase with cuts to essential services. It took me 45 ...read more
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On the bus coming home from our forest walk we passed a billboard for Hochzeitswelt: Wedding World. My partner says it's a giant sales emporium but I am convinced it is some kind of fun ...read more
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The aspects of Australianness I feel most dearly attached to, and which are also the aspects Germans, Americans, other people seem most intensely curious to hear reports of whenever I'm travel outside Australia, are these: ...read more
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I found a bar lit solely by candles. To get there I had to pass twenty-five Christmas trees, laid out to die on the stones. A wax-stick notice scribbled in the window of a nearby ...read more
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Oh, I love my little desk in my little borrowed room. At night the night is all around and silent, absolutely silent unless you hear the unending majestic progress as if across tundra after tundra ...read more
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We are travelling with a medium-sized hound named Felix and tonight I learned something uncanny about him. There is a bowl of walnuts on the low coffee table by the horde of tealight candles, santa-shaped ...read more
Woodford. What I forgot is that it is less of a festival, more of a place. Wherever you go and whomever you see, the valley grounds hold everyone up to the sky and in the ...read more