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 51
... police station , with its stables . Nineteen twenty- nine , and they still used horses . Why , even the mail run was by motor car . There was a large yard beside the police station , with a small hut positioned at the furthest corner ...
... police station , with its stables . Nineteen twenty- nine , and they still used horses . Why , even the mail run was by motor car . There was a large yard beside the police station , with a small hut positioned at the furthest corner ...
Page 52
... police and timber yards , and called into the roofed space just the other side of it . Then she strode to the rear of the police yard , swung her legs across the low fence there and , winding her way through the water tanks ...
... police and timber yards , and called into the roofed space just the other side of it . Then she strode to the rear of the police yard , swung her legs across the low fence there and , winding her way through the water tanks ...
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... police wagons . He hadn't even known there was a reserve there . The crammed police wagons filed by below him , and he tinkered with the linkages below the bucket , to fix his embarrassment . He saw a few who had escaped the police ...
... police wagons . He hadn't even known there was a reserve there . The crammed police wagons filed by below him , and he tinkered with the linkages below the bucket , to fix his embarrassment . He saw a few who had escaped the police ...
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