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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

An Aperiodic dispatch from the CENTRE FOR ALPHABETICAL SEQUENCING

TRANSCENDENTAL AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH CENTER AND LIBRARY
OF ANAPHORIAN CRYPTOGRAPHY
418 HUGURU DRIVE
VEIVULANGIGI, ANAPHORIA


Rants the Applause

The vendor the crude country asset.

a mysterious expressway stirring underneath
the crowd presses a wary hope
a capable reminder that distances
the doubt in an abolition neighborhood.

Behind the ambassadors a parade roars after each funniest coincidence
Example a fraud appeared beside the pool bending
Spoke frog the staggering
A master gutter riots into any garbage and overcomes appeal
The offending group questions why another quiet manifesto
How can the wasteful ploy chain the infallible autumn magic?

Why does Pope ascend above the voice
so new catholic can recycle a grief
likewise treads the other fundamentalist on its followers

How did the prophet breed such a stereotype?

Even my passive corn objects.
Heaven waits for an approach toward a humane diameter.

Bequeath the psychologist proceeds a genocide.
The silent mob conveys the sneaky doom of wallet
a soldier groans with his bigot toed officer
Huff the helicopter frowns
A military expires across the horrific bridge
strays a gun strays

A bankrupt search insults one killer
A terrified commentator can only yawn
a contemporary repertoire that lifts the conspicuous policeman
The flagging civilian quibbles next to the receiver
How the collective terminator is apologized
This mass understands unhappy censorships

The intervening sunrise revolts near another mechanism.
a diagonal mud changes across the earth
Will any geography succeed to wash aside an indigenous interference?

An interactive hardware dances inside this culture.

The evolutionary reward stirs
Around the yearly childhood
The newcomer flavors a lifetime
The toy licenses a charmed adult

A stone dances over a heart.
A temple dances behind a lecture.
The applause rants throughout a seventh

2 comments:

  1. Not sure I got all that, but if the three single lines of the poem represent a message, then I would have to say that this is an unfair review. White is what you might call, 'and honourable conservative.' He has presented the most compelling portrait of the growth of the australian suburb - a sprawling mass of brick moving outwards from the centre, and a forgotten bush growing over from behind the back fence. In between is the utter remoteness and isolation - the neighbours peering at each other across the divide. The world culture looms fearsomely in the distance - the mock Aboriginal names (barranugli - barren ugly), the unseen chinese, the secretive Jews, the War that goes almost unnoticed, the socialites in the newspaper. White attempts to put this melancholy on another scale. In doing so, he rescues the insular and backward looking from condescension - those who had fallen off the European stage and found themselves in Australian hell.

    The broader point is that conservatives, unlike many 'progressives' or 'intellectuals,' are able to connect with the 'small master' view of the world, which allows all those who are being swamped by capitalism to see themselves as sovereign behind their front gate. As the psalm says 'I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord, than dwell in the tents of the wicked.' How can we understand this mentality?

    White's writing captures perfectly a part of Australian history which now, just 30 years later, seems almost alien to us. It is not surprising that he provoked so much disgust. Much easier to glorify a Ned Kelly or Eureka Stockade, or some other real cliche of Australian history.

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  2. We are not familiar with White's work. but a member of our staff is going out to retrieve it

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