Thanks, Sheila, Andrew, Doug.
No, not headphones, Doug. Our former PM may be accused of much, not least populism, but/so he would not cut himself off from potential acclamation.
Bill
> On 26 Nov 2014, at 9:12 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> The narrative moves smoothly to that neat conclusion, Bill.
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> Not knowing anything about the personage, I first took that ‘ferryman and guide’ to be the awful ubiquitous earphones of information most galleries now provide...
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> D
>> On Nov 25, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Surveying sculpture at McClelland
>> Outdoor Gallery, eyes down,
>>
>> appreciating Smalls, a line
>> of tiny metal personages
>>
>> arranged in sand, when
>> a slight kerfuffle behind
>>
>> announced the presence
>> of a trolley, golf cart really,
>>
>> ferrying three snowy-haired
>> types around the exhibits.
>>
>> Frostiest-haired front passenger
>> hunched and half-listening
>>
>> to his ferryman and guide
>> while his eyes fished about
>>
>> was Robert James Lee Hawke,
>> whose golden Nugget leather mug
>>
>> tricked my recognition receptors.
>> I don't know this man at all.
>>
>> Perhaps the surprise was seeing
>> that fleshy puppet in open air.
>>
>> Emerging from behind celluloid,
>> there in sun, all unscreened by tv.
>>
>> Before anyone, even if they
>> had felt inclined, so much
>>
>> as Hail Bobbed, the cart
>> rolled off behind a bush
>>
>> and Bob, stepdad apparently,
>> of an exhibitor, was gone.
>>
>> bw
>> 26.11.14
>>
>> * Australia's 23rd Prime Minister, 1983-91
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> that we are only
> as we find out we are
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> Charles Olson
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