I think you're being a bit sensitive....
:)
On 03/04/2007, at 9:21, Caleb Cluff wrote:
> Hey buddy - just because I work for the national broadcaster doesn't
> mean I program it... </irony>
>
> Seriously Meika - my father rings me to complain about every perceived
> slight/alleged left wing bias/grammatical error/change in
> programming on
> the ABC. Often three times a week. "Yes Dad, I'll look into it. Of
> course it's my fault. No no no you're absolutely correct - we do serve
> chardonnay for morning tea and every right turn in the building has
> been
> blocked..."
>
> ;)
>
> caleb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of meikamonagmail
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2007 9:15 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem - Run
>
> there's an equally annoying chap on ABC-TV at the moment doing the
> world in 80 treasure as only a pom can...
>
> On 03/04/2007, at 8:41, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>>> Ahhh Kasper - the word songline refers to a White understanding of a
>>> complex Indigenous (Australian Aboriginal) system of communications,
>>> kinship rules and beliefs - a 'system' insofar as that is the only
>>> word
>>> we have in English to try and grasp another culture's world. It
>>> was used
>>> by Bruce Chatwin in the novel "The Songlines", a book that was
>>> popular
>>> for a time among people here and overseas who had obviously never
>>> been
>>> near Indigenous culture in this country, and were clinging to a
>>> sickening amalgam of hand-picked slices of Rousseau and ideas of a
>>> Gaia.
>>>
>>> caleb
>>
>> Thanks, Caleb for this! Against much educated 'White' praise, I
>> tried to
>> read the Chatwin and found myself repelled. Without putting a
>> finger on why.
>> You do it, well.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
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