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Highlights of Issue 81, September 2010
 

Napier’s Bones Stolen!

Tony Rogers

To say nothing of an identity.
Oldies but Goodies (No. 8) Lachlan Drysdale The Station
A Word in Your Pink Shell-like Harlish Goop Hands up, those who want to edit their own prose.
I Put It to the Witness . . . Morrison Tippler How park pandemonium can lead to claims court chaos.
Appetizer 16 Tony Rogers Oranges, cherries, strawberries and raspberries.  Peaches, too.
Titillating Titles Bet Briggs “Confections of a Bibulous Bibliophile”.
Web Line Tony Rogers An offer we can’t refuse.  Or can we?
Quintessential Quirky Quotes Various Quotes from Woody Allen, Sir Winston Churchill, Eddie Condon,
Samuel Johnson and David Smith.
From the Back Verandah

 

Fizzgig Is it a bird?  Is it a plane?

 


Oldies but Goodies (No. 8)
Lachlan Drysdale

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"At the main entrance two rail employees reside in the office. Old white fans speckled with dirt wobble and squeak in an attempt to stir the air in the ticket office sauna. In the far corner one of the guards snores loudly, his grease stained shirt pulled tight over his ample stomach. At the ticket window a female guard flicks through the weekend paper, her feminine features coarse from endless hours spent in the sun. Both appear at ease with the dirty cluttered office."


A Word in Your Pink Shell-like
— Harlish Goop

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"I first encountered The Reader over Your Shoulder more than fifty years ago when it was lent to me, highly recommended, during my final year at high school. To me, having to endure its sedate approach to the writing of prose seemed initially no more than an unwarranted and tedious extra burden on my already overcrowded study timetable. A further browse through the book the next day, however, persuaded me otherwise."


Titillating Titles
— Bet Briggs

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"Instantly I was back in the golden rule days. I can see me: a schoolgirl, free from the confines of the classroom and its disciplines, outdoors with two of my teenage intimates, absorbed in a “literary” game all the rage then and doing the rounds of the playground. The name of the game, if it had one, I can’t recall. So what was it and how was it played? ."


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