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Re-formatted Re-ordered Re-sequenced 1,2 Text
~ Kevin you are dashed lucky you weren’t thrown into one of those Forensic Psychiatry Facilities to be found in every state capital run by Geoff Kennett, Ian Hickie, the psychotropic drugs for teens 2008 Australian of th.. uh-oh, Damian Ferrie, Astha Tomar, Angelo Virgona, Sophie Adams and not Jon Jureidini
~ Mother
6
‘They were the days of the big migrations, those last days of August and early September, and Jim spent long hours observing and noting down new arrivals: the first refugees Miss Harcourt called them – a strange word, he wondered where she had heard it. He never had.
‘Tree martins first, but they came only from the Islands to breed; great flocks of them ewere suddenly there overnight, already engaged in remaking old nests, dotterel and grey-crowned knots, the various tattlers, once a lone greenshank; then sharp-tailed sandpipers, wood sandpipers from the Balkans, whimbrel, grey plover, the Eastern Curlew, Japanese snipe, [fork-tailed swifts from Siberia]: then much later, towards the turn of the year, Terek sandpipers and pratinoles, the foreign ones in the same flock with the locals but clearly distinguishable. He filled book after book with his sightings, carefully noting the numbers and the dates of arrival.
‘The first sight of a bird, there again, after so many months’ absence, in the clear round of his glasses, with a bit of landscape behind it, a grass tuft, or reeds or a raft of sticks – that was a small excitement. Quickly he took from his pocket the folded notebook with its red oilcloth cover and the pencil stub from behind his ear, and with his eyes still on the bird, made his illegible scribbles. [The greater excitement was in inscribing what he had seen into The Book].
‘Using his best copybook hand, including all the swirls and hooks and tails on the capital letters that you left off when you were simply jotting things down, he entered them up, four or five to a page. This sort of writing was serious. It was giving the creature, through its name, a permanent place in the world, as Miss Harcourt did through pictures. The names were magical. They had behind them, each one, in a way that still seemed mysterious to him, as it had been when he first learned to say them over in his head, both the real bird he had sighted, with its peculiar markings and its individual cry, and the species with all its characteristics of diet, habits, preference for this or that habitat, kind of nest, number of eggs etc. Out of air and water they passed through their name, and his hand as he carefully formed the letters, into The Book. Making a place for them there was giving them existence in another form, recognising their place in the landscape, or his stretch of it: providing ‘sanctuary’.
‘He did this entering up at a particular time and in a particular frame of mind. He liked to have the lamp set just so, and chose a good pen and the best ink; bringing to the occasion his fullest attention; concentrating as he had on those long boring afternoons at the one teacher school when he had first, rather reluctantly and without at all knowing what it was to be for, learned to form the round, full-bodied letters; and adding with a flourish now the big F’s, the curled tails of the Q’s. He was proud of his workl, and pleased when, each week, he was able to show Ashley what he had added.
‘ βBeautiful!’ Ashley said for the names, the writing, as he never did for the actual birds, to which he brought only his silence. And that was right. It pleased Jim to have verbal praise for The Book and silence in the face of the real creature as it lifted its perfect weight from water into air, since in that way Ashley’s reaction mirrored his own.
‘When Ashley and Julia Bell were married at the end of the year Jim presented them with the first of the Books; not exactly as a wedding gift, but as a mark of the occasion. With it went the first of Miss Harcourt’s pictures.’
Mr Malouf 1982 Fly Away Peter
1 Macro or Parsed You-knee-versal Neoclassical word, sentence, paragraph, chapter, volume or cyclopedia (a reference work often in several volumes containing articles on various topics often arranged in alphabetical order dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty as in the vast array of methodologically chaotic ‘science,’ technology, engineering, mathematics and history-of-the-visual & cinematic-arts topics for largely fatuous back-slapping and big cigars conference junkets artificially compartmentalised under patriarchic fiscal elites per Green Economist international newsletter Blundell Australia 1993)
2 syntactically accented as ‘meaning & social-value’ differentiated series.. for example you may take the 6 words What-is-this-thing-called-love?, and insert a comma respectively after the first, second, third, fourth & fifth words (David Kranz SA gvrnment Adelaide 1977)
3 these were seen in magnificent tight flocks of say 35 to 90 birds on any undogged secluded beach on western Eyre Peninsula from antiquity through until the early Twenty 0’s along the waterline. ‘Ours’ were from the west side of North Korea where they encountered issues with government concrete-aggregate OK
Billionaire-ππππs with Olivettis 