Thruppence was 3 pennies in my childhood economy - but it was also a young
Indigenous girl's mission name (why, I don't know).
Andrew
On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 09:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Pat, Andrew, Doug. Re Thruppence, other famous poem references, I
> am totally in the dark.
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> Bill
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> On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 1:55 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > A good question & sharp here, Bill, with that references to a famous
> > earlier poem…
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> > Doug
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> > > On Apr 30, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
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> > > Her night train query:
> > >
> > > Excuse me, do you know
> > >
> > > Sunshine*, at all?
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> > > bw
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> > > *Sunshine is a western suburb of Melbourne, named after Sunshine
> > > Harvesters, agricultural combine harvesters invented and manufactured
> by
> > H
> > > V McKay. This is my entire knowledge of Sunshine except, I notice in
> > > wikipedia that Sunshine was once regarded as the ‘Birmingham of
> > Australia’.
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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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> > We live in a world of suffering in which evil is rampant, a world whose
> > events do not confirm our Being, a world that has to be resisted. Is is
> in
> > this situation that the aesthetic moment offers hope, that we find a
> > crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are
> more
> > deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would
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> > us to believe…The energy of one’s perception become inseparable from the
> > energy of creation.
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> > – John Berger
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