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Category: Literature (Fiction)
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The Swans Incident: A Study in Australian Cultural Decay
Dr Neville Buch[1] Swan Song August 2026 In the winter chill of a fading year, A Swan Song echoes, sharp and clear. Across the Yarra, where the shadows creep, The secrets of the hotel halls they keep. Australian Black Swans, in their flight so high, Now grounded where the broken ethics lie. A nation watches,…
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The Calanthe Years: Judith Wright and Jack McKinney
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Myth, Morality, and the Republic of Heaven
Dr Neville Buch Abstract The literary and ideological clash between C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman serves as a primary site for Dr. Neville Buch’s application of Spiral Historiography and the Dynamic of Cognition (DoC). While Pullman characterizes the Chronicles of Narnia as “poisonous” religious propaganda, Dr. Buch provides a synoptic evaluation that moves…
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Notes: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
KEY POINT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A HISTORIAN The United Kingdom Prime Minister in 1925, when the book was published on 14 May 1925 was the moderating conservative, Stanley Baldwin (in office 1924-1929, 1935-1937; MP for Bewdley; 1867-1947). This means he was in office during the reign of Edward VIII and his…
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NDB Review of Notes from the Underground with highlighted e-book
A stream of consciousness review of a stream of consciousness set of notes. The following is a philosophical critique of Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground, with some consideration of the historical context of the nineteenth century, but with a clear consideration of the ‘present now’. NDB Review of Notes from the Underground with highlighted…
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Brisbane Humanists Film and Dinner Discussion: The Way, My Way
Dear Brisbane Folk, or those prepared to travel to Brisbane, If you are interested, here is an invitation to a film and dinner discussion on Sunday May 12th, THE WAY, MY WAY Q&A EVENT Date: Sunday, May 12 Time: 2:00 PM (100 minutes) Location: Regal Cinema, 381 Honour Ave, Graceville, QLD…
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Swiftian Dream: Types of Invasion Fears
Swiftian Dream: Types of Invasion Fears It must have been 3.15 a.m. or so. I was on the street near the water, a little way up the small hill. The noise first made me aware that something was happening. A few shots and shouts. From the sounds I could tell it was…
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The American Modernism of The Great Gatsby: Concepts of Landscape, Persons, and Time-Past
Synopsis: A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby (read copy, Penguin Books 1950, 2008 edition). The book was published in 1926, from notes of 1922 and as set in New York’s Long Island and Manhattan Island in 1922. The landscape of the narrative, is considered, in the first section of the review, with…