Two more excerpts from Alex Miller.. for dear gentle genital (ADULT or young adult) GEA & 🐒🐒🐒🥸 readers’ predilection (means cool)

“He is probably my age and even older and was a market gardening with his father when Artthur and I first came here, at a time when this was the country, or the edge of the country. In those days Stony and his father sold us the varieties of vegetables we were not clever enough to grow for ourselves. Their neat little fields and glashouses have gradually been squeezed into a tiny pocket surrounded by the new suburban mansions and their dogs and trampolines and tennis courts and swimming pools, the mansions all vaguely influenced by the holidays of their owners in Provence and Tuscany. [This country influences no-one any more.] The old Australian Australia has gone. That remnant sense of the pioneer. It is all mock European now.” (p 106 Allen & Unwin 2011)

“Looking at the picture he knew in himself a kinship of exile with it, a sense that each of them had been subjected to the same wilful coercion, the same peculiar cultural violence, of the men in command of things. Those who could command the pillaging. Displayed here in this silent foyer, Wyndham Lewis’s masterpiece had become a trophy merely of wealth and power, a rare and expensive object, like the Chinese celadon vase on the cover of Apollo, with which to augment the prestige of its owner, the great chairman of the board. Pat’s voice broke across the empty spaces of the foyer. ‘I’d go bloody starkers sitting here all day with that looking over my shoulder.’

‘I thought you liked it,’ Helen said gently. ‘[And there’s no need to swear, Pat. You’re upset.] Go on with what you were telli..” (p 152 A & U 2011)

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