A PAINTED SHIP James Cook: So what have you got down already? Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Not much really, Part 1 Begins with a kind of introduction that’s all. You told me the voyage was an initiation into the mysteries of the Southern Ether; so I have planned seven parts – seven is a pretty good […]
BLOCK: Australian Geography & History
Word Circus: Anzacs in Australia
THE ANZAC ILIAD The place the Spirit of Australia chose for its self-realization is, oddly, Anzac Cove; a timeless sacred site. It is also the womb, as it were, of the mysteries of Muliebrity. Here Zeus hurled the statue of Pallas, the Black Virgin, to earth – hence Palestine; the first of a stream of […]