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Things in General – a Literary Miscellany. This new softcover book is now available at Stoneman’s Bookroom in Castlemaine, Bookish in Bendigo and Aesop’s Attic in Kyneton.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
The Rise and Fall of the Ornamental Hermit 7
Reynard in the Antipodes 12
Bach Meets Procrustes 23
Smelling a Rat 29
Birdlore 34
Frazer and The Golden Bough 43
Pure Finders and the Broad-Toothed Rat 52
Bunyips and the Boulia Lights 61
Naming Australia 70
Metaphysics and the Faerie 79
Puritanism and Modern Science 86
An Ordinary Man’s War 96
Reidy’s Harvest 100
The Enduring Problem of Monkey Business 104
Why Philosophy Buries its Undertakers 114
T.S. Eliot, Modernism and Tradition 126
The Man Who Saw Ends 142
Extracts From the Shinyseat Diaries 145
The Achievements of Francis Ratcliffe 154
Petrarch and the Mountain 165
Mr Dethridge and the Plasticine People 170
The Mouth of Hell 184
The Priest and the Jester – Leszek Kolakowski 194
If You Seek Their Monument 205