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 […]
ESOTERIC: Language
The Australian Word: Mime
THE MANY MASKS OF PIERROT The smile was as fixed as plaster, a grimace really, over a body writhing in torment. Elegant hands became tortured claws in an attempt to peel the mocking grin from the white face. The ultimate inner conflict between persona and soma was being expressed on stage with shocking impact; this […]
The Australian Word: Speech
HALLOWED BY THY NAME… … is the first line of the Lord’s Prayer after the invocation ‘Our Father’, etc. This ‘hallowed name’ could also be referred toas hallowed ‘Word’ of ‘Logos’. The very same that is spoken of in the first lines of the Gospel of St. John – In the beginning was the Word… […]
The Australian Word: The Novel
A RING OF BRIGHT STARS — THE NOVEL — “Hello, I’m The Novel. No, not A novel, the Novel – or the Spirit of same actually. I’m really one of the humble earthly servants of The Word – no, not A word, the word – that highest of spiritual principles attending human culture through the […]
The Australian Word: Humor
“YOU’RE FUNNY, ALAN” Four wretches cringed in the center of the forest clearing on an Attic hillside; dancing firelight mingled with the terror in their eyes What new indignity was to be heaped upon those already inflicted by the simple villagers? Each soul suffered from an affliction recognized then as ‘demon possession’, but today goes […]
The Australian Word: The Larynx
JEWEL IN THE CROWN OF THE BLACK PRINCE A large olive grasshopper flew in and landed on the window sill of the sunny breakfast nook at the Family Foresight’s. “Ooh!” said Mother “Look at the size of his legs – I bet he can jump high.” “They’re not just legs, there his fiddle bows as […]