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Calibre bend to full sail university11/16/2023 If you are seeking an anchor, you may as well make it a big one. I spend time near the great red rock, and it usually helps. When I've been in the city, sometimes, listing like a ship in a storm, timbers groaning, coming apart at every nail – the central desert can be safe harbour. Where I stay has no television, no radio, and the internet is intermittent. I travel to the Centre a few times every year. An elegant piece bouncing coincidences between the two monoliths, book and rock. I am reading it now on my tablet in the shallows of a central desert summer, bewildered by the reverberance between the novel (so capacious it felt like traversing a new land) and the landscape (as overwhelming and provocative as any novel). There is no rule that says your vade mecum cannot be digital. It was a hardback edition with thick deckle-edged pages that seemed to swell in the humidity. The first time I read his mad swirling novel was in Darwin. then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If'. An experience far from unique that could be styled, beautifully, as 'through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt. The definite child who became an often adamantine young man has ceded the stage to a muddler who knows less each day. Which is also my own progression, in microcosm: initial awareness learning evaluation and relearning doubt and uncertainty uncomfortable unknowing. The history of my onomastic apprehension and misapprehension about the big thing in the middle of Australia: It is called Ayers Rock.
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