I've read one "poetry in prose" novel--Alan Wearne's
_The Lovemakers_--and enjoyed it very much. (It was a
gift from an Australian political scientist--I kid you
not.)
Candice
--- kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> this looks fabulous
>
> KS
>
> On 23/03/07, meikamonagmail <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > On 23/03/2007, at 22:08, Roger Day wrote:
> > > Isn't there a form like this?
> > >
> > > I tried this once:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.badstep.net/text/poetry/estaury/fox.html
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > interesting intersections aside.....
> >
> > I find I have the same emotional reaction to the
> stationary as to
> > the fox, to the airfix glue as to the leaf-mould,
> actually I think I
> > prefer the biros to the hawk.
> >
> > You see, foxes have just arrived in Tasmania, and
> while Macdonalds
> > golden arches beat them here by a decade or more
> they mean much the
> > same thing, homogeneity of the world's temperate
> zones.
> >
> > I'm too placed in Tasmania to readit otherwise.
> >
> > and as it under a share-alike license...
> >
> >
> > __________A Fox Forest Forgetting__________
> >
> > A fox noses
> > a papered forest
> > reeking of chlorine.
> >
> > Professor Andrew Wadsley: My concerns over dioxin
> contamination are
> > not idle scaremongering. I am an adjunct associate
> professor of
> > Petroleum Engineering at the Curtin University of
> Technology, Western
> > Australia, and I have acted as Umpire and Expert
> Witness in dispute
> > resolutions in the petroleum industry. It is
> outrageous that the Bill
> > disenfranchises me and all other Tasmanians from
> participating in the
> > assessment process, from challenging the
> Proponent's expert
> > witnesses, and removes any legal right to take
> civil action over any
> > breach of Tasmanian law. Sir, I realise that
> withholding assent is
> > not a step that you would take lightly.
> Nevertheless, I urge you to
> > do this in order to preserve the Rule of Law in
> Tasmania.
> >
> > The fox laughs, cocks his leg against
> > the stump of a tree once alive
> > for four hundred years
> > now gone to wipe arses in Japan.
> >
> > Michael Pascoe writes: A little wind-powered,
> solar-heated,
> > greenhouse-neutral recyclable light switched on in
> my head while
> > reading Thomas Hunter's pulp mill piece yesterday.
> Suddenly I
> > understood why we have a totally inconsistent and
> very dodgy federal
> > policy to allow odious tax-driven marketing of
> lousy plantation
> > timber investment schemes to continue. While
> scrapping the up-front
> > tax rort for non-timber rural managed investment
> schemes, the
> > government has tried to justify continuing the
> ruse for timber
> > plantations with some garbled mutterings about
> greenhouse policy,
> > import replacements and patient capital. It of
> course made and makes
> > no sense. But yesterday, it clicked. It looks
> like Gunns' pulp mill
> > will only be viable if it plants vast new timber
> plantations. The
> > timber plantations will only happen if they can be
> marketed to mug
> > investors under the guise of a tax break. The
> federal forestry
> > minister is Senator Eric Abetz. Senator Abetz
> worked harder than
> > anyone to keep the tax lurk. Senator Abetz is from
> Tasmania. What's
> > the most powerful corporation in Tasmania? Oh, you
> already know that
> > one. Silly me – at the time, I thought it rather
> odd that Gunns
> > donated $62,500 to the Liberal Party but only
> $2,980 to Labor last
> > year, but I guess the plantation kings always knew
> which policy
> > really mattered most to them. Personally, I have
> no problem with a
> > pulp mill or continuing to harvest
> previously-harvested native
> > forests or planting timber plantations. What's
> annoying is that, as a
> > taxpayer, I'm subsidising questionable marketing
> campaigns for lousy
> > or not-very-good investment products. The timber
> plantation schemes,
> > even with the 100 per cent up-front tax
> deductions, haven't and don't
> > really stack up as good investments. Many of them
> are positively
> > woeful. Without the tax enticement, they would be
> fully exposed as
> > duds, but there are plenty of mugs out there happy
> to burn a dollar
> > to avoid paying 50 cents tax. And the rest of us
> are subsidising
> > their illusion. Nice work, Eric. I'm just glad I
> finally understand
> > why it happened.
> >
> > The fox gnaws another
> > pademelon
> > or eight.
> >
> > Michael Field: To understand why John Howard could
> become a figure of
> > tragedy of Shakespearean proportions, his life
> story needs to be
> > understood. The Liberal Party has been John
> Howard's life. He joined
> > the party about the time of his eighteenth
> birthday in 1957, and so
> > he will have his 50th anniversary this year. The
> best indication of
> > his commitment and that of his mother was an
> action taken by them in
> > 1968 when he was still living at home. Howard was
> endorsed as the
> > candidate for the state seat of Drummoyne. In
> order to enhance his
> > chances, his mother sold the family home in
> Earlwood and rented a
> > house with him at Five Dock, a suburb within the
> electorate. When his
> > bid failed, John Howard and his mother returned to
> Earlwood, moving
> > together to a house in the very same street that
> he grew up in.
> >
> > Down in the valley, men prowl.
> > but the fox has it all.
> >
> > Murdoch's Mockery Newspaper: FORMER judge
> Christopher Wright felt
> > "compromised", leant on and pressured by Premier
> Paul Lennon to fast-
> > track the assessment of the Gunns pulp mill. Mr
> Wright said Mr Lennon
> > had given him an "ultimatum" to speed up the
> assessment of the $1.5
> > billion project or he would introduce legislation.
> The chair of the
> > Resource Planning and Development Commission pulp
> mill assessment
> > panel, which had been assessing the mill until
> last week, verbally
> > resigned after his meeting with Mr Lennon.
> >
> > Up here, the fox looks down on the fools
> > who wish they had a
> > gun.
> >
> >
> > Prose lifted from:---
> >
> > Professor Andrew Wadsley:
> <http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/weblog/
> > comments/letter-to-the-governor/>
> > Michael Pascoe: crikey.com.au
> > Michael Field:
>
<http://tasmaniantimes.com/index.php/weblog/comments/
> > the-potential-tragedy-for-john-howard/>
> > Murdoch Mockery Newspaper::
> <http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/
> > 0,22884,21406490-921,00.html>
>
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