death - memory

Death is forgetfulness, and life resists it through developing mnemonic skills: “This is the use of memory: / For liberation – …” (‘Little Gidding’).

If you elicit a confession

My advice to a person finding themselves in my position is: “If you elicit a confession from someone, don’t whatever you do meet their eye.” Especially if it’s bloke to bloke.

2010 reading

Currently reading? Allington framed by Cervantes (Patrick sandwiched by the Don - a politics course in itself).

Backwards to Jan '10:
David Malouf Ransom
Thomas Pynchon Inherent Vice
Shaun Tan Tales from outer suburbia
Gerald Murnane The Plains
J.M. Coetzee Summertime
Tim Winton Cloudstreet (for the first time)