Benang: From the HeartOceanic in its rhythms and understanding, brilliant in its use of language and image, moving in its largeness of spirit, compelling in its narrative scope and style, this intriguing journey is a celebration and lament--of beginning and return, of obliteration and recovery, of silencing, and of powerful utterance. Both tentative and daring, it speaks to the present and a possible future through stories, dreams, rhythms, songs, images and documents mobilized from the incompletely acknowledged and still dynamic past. |
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Page 287
... kids had never been to school before . They had been kept away , one way or another , from towns . ― It was a crowded classroom , and organised according to age ; with the exception of the new kids , who were all put together . Will ...
... kids had never been to school before . They had been kept away , one way or another , from towns . ― It was a crowded classroom , and organised according to age ; with the exception of the new kids , who were all put together . Will ...
Page 388
... kids would leave . Tommy would spend weeks almost completely alone , except for sport , when one of the brothers would allow him to join the kids at the orphanage . Someone said they knew him . ' You a Coolman , eh ? ' And when one of ...
... kids would leave . Tommy would spend weeks almost completely alone , except for sport , when one of the brothers would allow him to join the kids at the orphanage . Someone said they knew him . ' You a Coolman , eh ? ' And when one of ...
Page 432
... kids even though he had married a white woman . But , the boy ... He was clever at school ( I was ) , he liked reading ( ditto ) , drawing all the time ( I do ) . Tommy must've known , he knew what Ern was like . He shouldn't have let ...
... kids even though he had married a white woman . But , the boy ... He was clever at school ( I was ) , he liked reading ( ditto ) , drawing all the time ( I do ) . Tommy must've known , he knew what Ern was like . He shouldn't have let ...
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