> Just as discussion of Australian poetry recently petered out, it seems the
> so-called East, let alone South, is largely invisible, still. Don't these
> people have maps? Oh, I forgot - US-Brit-Eurocentrism is still alive and
well.
>
> But so's the elsewheres. And we have maps.
>
> Cheers and hello from an elsewhere,
> Jill
I was fascinated, Jill, by one thing from the end of the Commonwealth games,
where a rotating upside-down globe was shown, with Australia highlighted and
+at the top+. I noticed how odd it felt but also how +right+ it was, because
from Sydney or Melbourne that is how the world +looks+, even though the
conceptual map one carries says otherwise.
All the Best
Dave
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