I had to look up proleptic too, Patrick.
Doug, I like the distance of this observation.
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.
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.
Bill
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 5:17 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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