Sounds idyllic to me Bill.
John
> On 08 August 2019 at 10:31 Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I had to look up proleptic too, Patrick.
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> Doug, I like the distance of this observation.
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> I write here from Cooktown in FNQ (Far Northern Queensland), a town once
> the second biggest port in Queensland, set up largely for the Palmer River
> Gold Rush in the 1870s. After that decline and various fires and cyclones,
> what is left is an unpretentious rump of a place in a beautiful tropical
> zone, a bit of fishing and tourism propping it up. Buildings have tumbled
> or been half-resurrected. Dormancy extends to vacant blocks on Charlotte
> St, the main street, where frangipanis and palms grow wild.
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> Hoo roo from the Sovereign Hotel, finally rebuilt after a cyclone took off
> its second storey and earned it the soubriquet The Half Sovereign for a
> while.
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> Bill
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> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 5:17 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > carcasses of unfinished houses
> > scattered across the city
> > proleptic ruins
> > seen long before their time
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> > why caught in such dormancy
> > whether or not finally built
> > they show us now
> > of what will come
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> > Douglas Barbour
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> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> > 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> > Shakespeare
> > Drag yr mouldy old bones
> > Up these stairs & tell me
> > What you died of,
> > I think
> > I’ve got it
> > Too.
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