Tuesday, 14 July 2020

5 finger breathing...

Randolph Stow lost?...



From 'Ishmael'
The hawks wheel in the
dawnlight, the dawn breeze
blows
from the heart of drought, from
the hungry waiting country –
and what have I to leave, but
this encumbering
tenderness, like gear for ever
unclaimed.


P.S. Currently popular Western Australian novelist Tim Winton influenced by Stow's outback descriptions of Western Australian outback landscapes and people? (In particular, this comment seems connected to Stow's novel 'Tourmaline'.)
P.P.S. It seems that the Sydney Morning Herald agrees with me...
                                              article on Stow published June 2, 2010

Randolph Stow quotes:
Ishmael -'Oasis. Discovered homeland. My eyes drink at your eyes.'
The Embarkation-'Winds in the harbour hiss'
At Sandalwood-'The love of time, and the grief of time: the harmony'
The Land's Meaning-'The love of man is a weed of the waste places.'

snow tracks and a bird...

child and snow patterns...

Australian lighthouses...

like eerie skeleton arms...

pebble legend...

alone...

Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915), born into a samurai family, is regarded as an important artist of the Japanese Meiji period who paved the way for following generations of Japanese printmakers from the traditional ukiyo-e to the new shin hanga art movement.

More details of his life from the Meiji period and the Tokugawa shogunate to his life as a ronin - a lordless samurai HERE

snow gums...

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