But did anyone on this train know who Leavis was? Would anyone care if he’d met his end in a train’s toilet ? Finally after way too long he emerged. I didn’t have the courage to ask him about his conviction that the text is everything . And we went our separate ways.

What if his briefcase held his last ms? What if he’d changed his mind and decided that context and history mattered and might actually enrich our textual analysis. Of course “appropriating” his ms would be a delicious post-modern response but to a nice girl from Melbourne it wasn’t ethical .

I was in my element.https://observer.co.uk/style/gardens/article/have-you-seen-my-hair-nothing-pecky-with-claws-flies-near-me

I was asked to Adelaide for the glory that is Writers’ Week. The festival was an unalloyed sunny joy: stately Australian women in either long stylish dresses and therapist jewellery, or short dresses with multiple piercings; clever readers; loads of fruit.

Dan Tehan has taken trips to Israel - at Israel's expense

He is compromised by Israel's many gifts to him and their soft propaganda fed to him

Dan Tehan is not a reliable source

“If we agree to that, if we forget our own essential fragility, we become complicit in the crime and the same evil raining down on the corpse-ridden sands of Gaza begins to poison us as well.” Nothing more needs to be said. It is now up to the govt to act .