PART IX. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023 To Circa July 2023.

1.0 - Blog's Title: PART IX. On Colonial / Post-Colonial Australian Literary And Dramatic Texts: Notes By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, Circa June 2023 To Circa July 2023.

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2.0 - Philip Lindsay, 30 April 1906, Sydney, Australia, to: 4 January 1958, Hastings, Sussex—Philip Lindsay wrote narrativized historical texts of early modern Europe and a number of critical and biographical texts which appear no longer in print, but which indicate Philip Lindsay's Australian heritage; for example, a biography on the Australian cricketer, Don Bradman. Philip Lindsay is the son of the celebrated Australian author and visual artist: Norman Lindsay and was himself celebrated in his day as something of an Australian, post-colonial bard, that is, with his literary focus on a connection with the southern regions of England. Fourteen of Philip Lindsay's texts are listed directly beneath:

2.1 - Panama Is Burning, circa 1932; 

A. circa 1932, Cassell And Company, Limited, London, 309 pages; 20 centimeters, OCLC: 11156548; B. circa 1961, Australian pocket books series, Adelaide: Rigby, 191 pages, 19 centimeters. 

2.2 - One Dagger For Two: A Novel, 

circa 1932—a text based on the life of Elizabethan dramatist, Christopher Marlowe; A. circa 1932, Cassell And Company Limited, ASIN: ‎B004Y27ADA; 

B. circa 1952, First Pocket-book edition, London: News Of The World, 246 pages, 17 centimeters; C. London, Hutchinson, 311 pages, 21 centimeters.

2.3 - London Bridge Is Falling, circa 1934—a text that focuses on Jack Cade's revolt of circa 1450 at south-east England; A. Ivor Nicholson And Watson Limited, 466 pages; B. Little Brown And Company, LCCN: 34019488, OCLC / WorldCat: 1305805.

2.4 - The Devil And King John, circa 1943; A. circa 1943, London: Hutchinson, 224 pages; 21 centimeters; B. circa 1972, Cedric Chivers Limited, Portway Combe Park, Bath, Somerset, BA1 3NF, OCLC: 810652204.

2.5 - Cricketing Lives; Don Bradman, 1 January 1951; A. Phoenix House, hard-cover, 64 pages, contains black and white photographic plates.

2.6 - Jack Laughs At Locksmiths, 1 January 1951; A. Hutchinson And Company, re-print edition, ASIN: ‎B002CXSRI0.

2.7 - The Shadow Of The Red Barn, 1 January 1952; A. London: Hutchinson, 319 pages, 19 centimeters, ASIN: ‎B000SAKTBM, OCLC: OCM11163507.

2.8 - A Piece For Candle-light, circa 1953—a text based on the life of Mary 'Perdita' Robinson; A. circa 1976, London: Hutchinson, 304 pages, 20 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0091232805.

2.9 - The Haunted Man A Portrait Of Edgar Allan Poe, circa 1953; A. 

London: Hutchinson, 256 pages, ISBN-10: 0841458413. 

2.10 - They Have Their Dreams, circa 1956—a narration of the historical events regarding Perkin Warbeck circa 1497; A. circa 1956, London: Hutchinson, 298 pages, 21 centimeters; C. circa 1976, C. Chivers, xiii, 521 pages, ISBN-10: 100859971503. 

2.11 - The Swell Yokel, circa 1955

—a text based on the life of John Thurtell; A. circa 1955, London: Hutchinson; B. circa 1974, London: White Lion Publishers, 364 pages, 21 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0856171964, ISBN-13: 9780856171963. 

2.12 - Gentleman Harry Retires, circa 1937—a text based on the life of 18th-century English high-way man, Henry Simms, known as Gentleman Harry; A. 1 January 1937, London: Ivor Nicholson And Watson, ASIN: ‎B0014KMNJ6; B. circa 1948, reprint by John Langdon Limited, 320 pages.

2.13 - Further, Philip Lindsay was a co-screen-writer for: A. Under The Red Robe, circa 1937, 80 minutes, directed by Victor Sjöström based on Under The Red Robe, circa 1894, that is an historical novel by Stanley J. Weyman; 

B. Song Of Freedom, circa 1936; 76 minutes, that is a British musical / drama film directed by J. Elder Wills, produced by Hammer Film Productions.

3.0 - Catherine Beatrice Edmonds, circa 1900 to circa 1960; one of Catherine Beatrice Edmonds's texts, the only one known, is listed directly beneath:

3.1 - Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid, circa May 1953; A. Constable & Company Limited, London; B. circa 1987, hard-cover, ISBN-10: 0858357046, ISBN-13: 9780858357044; C. Caddie, 1 April 1976, 106 minutes, is a biopic directed by Donald Crombie, produced by Anthony Buckley and written / adapted by Joan Long: the Australian Film Development Corporation, the Australian Women's Weekly, the Nine Net-work, the Secretariat for International Woman's Year and Roadshow, invested in the fim.

4.0 - Catherine Gaskin, 2 April 1929 in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland to: 6 September 2009, Sydney, New South Wales: was a prolific author, who wrote colonial Australian, fictionalised histories with heroines at the heart of each narrative; six of Catherine Gaskin's texts are listed directly beneath:

4.1 - This Other Eden, circa 1946, A.

circa 1946, Sydney: Collins, 272 pages, 22 centimeters.

4.2 - Sara Dane, circa 1954, A. circa 1983, Sydney: Bantam Books, paper-back, ISBN-10 ‎055323286X, ISBN-13 ‎978-0553232868; B. Translation to French by Leo Lack, Presses de la cite, 377 pages, 18 centimeters, ISBN-10:

2266008684, ISNN-13: 9782266008686; C. 10 June 1982, the South Australian Film Corporation made a mini-series, two episodes, 248 minutes, of the novel, for Network Ten—adapted / written by Alan Seymour, co-directed by Gary Conway Rod Hardy.

4.3 - All Else Is Folly, circa 1951; A. 

circa 1951, William Collins Sons And Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 256 pages, 21 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0002210371, ISBN-13: 9780002210379.

4.4 - Daughter Of The House, circa 

1952; A. [Collins], circa 1978, Fontana, 223 pages, 18 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0006153399, ISBN-13: 9780006153399.

4.5 - Fiona, circa 1970; A. 15 March 1990, HarperCollins, paper-back, 352 pages, ISBN-13: 9780006153054, ISBN-10: 0006153054.

5.0 - D'Arcy Niland, Darcy Francis Niland, 20 October 1917, Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia to 29 March 1967 (aged 49), Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia; married to fellow Australian author, Ruth Park; nine of D'Arcy Niland's texts are listed directly beneath:

5.1 - The Shiralee, circa 1955, A. 

Angus And Robertson, Australia and Britain, William Sloane Associates, the United States Of America, 223 pages; B. circa 2009, Penguin Books, 268 pages, ISBN-13: 9780143180197, ISBN-10:

0143180193; C. a film adaptation, 26 June 1988, produced by South Australian Film Corporation for Channel 7—directed by George Ogilvie, 103 minutes, the screen-play was written by Tony Morphett.

5.2 - Call Me When The Cross Turns Over, circa 1957; A. circa 1957, Angus And Robertson, 255 pages, LCCN: 58020007, OCLC / WorldCat: 13390709; B. circa 1973, White Lion Publishers, 190 pagez, OCLC / WorldCat: 16246332, ISBN-10: 0856171956.

5.3 - The Big Smoke, circa 1959; A. 31 August 1978, ‎Penguin, paper-back ‎224 pages, ISBN-10: ‎0140049649, ISBN-13 ‎978-0140049640.

5.4 - The Apprentices, circa 1965; A. circa 1965, London: Joseph, 200 pages, 21 centimeters, OL: 1195828M, LCCN: 94188075.

5.5 - Dead Men Running, circa 1969; A. 1 January 1969, Joseph, 316 pages, ISBN-10: ‎0718106784, ISBN-13: ‎978-0718106782. 

5.6 - Travelling Songs Of Old Australia, circa 1966; A. 1 January 

1965, London: Micheal Joseph; B. circa 1966, Sydney: Horwitz, 39 pages. 

5.7 - One Man's Kingdom, circa 1957—is an Australian radio serial by Ruth Park and D'arcy Niland, 13 episodes, Australia Broad-casting Commission. 

5.8 - Gold In The Streets, circa 1959; A. circa 1959, London: Horwitz, 1959 225 pages, 19 centimeters. 

5.9 - Pairs And Loners, circa 1966; A. circa 1966, London: Michael Joseph, 172 pages, 21 centimeters.

6.0 - Patrick White, 28 May 1912, Knightsbridge, London, to: 30 September 1990, Sydney: Australia's Nobel Laureate for literature, circa 1973; there are ten of Patrick White's novels listed directly beneath:

6.1 - The Living And The Dead, circa 1941; A. circa 1962, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 346 pages; B. 4 October 1996, Random House Britain, 368 pages, 19.9 x 13.2 x 2.8 centimeters, paper-back, ISBN-13: 9780099324317, ISBN-10: 0099324318.

6.2 - The Aunt's Story, circa 1948; A. 25 March 1976, Penguin, paper-back, ‎288 pages, 17.78 x 2.54 x 12.7 centimeters, ISBN-10: ‎0140041451, ISBN-13: ‎978-0140041453.

6.3 - The Tree of Man, circa 1955; A. 3 August 2009, Random House, Australia, paper-back, 480 pages, 3.2 x 12.8 x 19.8 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781741667707, ISBN-10: 1741667704.

6.4 - Voss, circa 1957; A. 1 October 2012, Random House, Australia, 464 pages, 20 x 13 x 3.5 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781742756882, ISBN-10: 1742756883.

6.5 - Riders In The Chariot, circa 1961; A. circa October 1996, Random House, Britain, 560 pages, paper-back, 3.5 x 13  x 19.6 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9780099323914, ISBN-10: 0099323915.

6.6 - The Solid Mandala, circa 1966; 

A. 1 July 2012, Random House, Australia, 320 pages, paper-back, 2.5 x 13.7 x 20.4 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781742759012, ISBN-10: 1742759017.

6.7 - The Vivisector, circa 1970; A. 19 March 2018, Penguin Australia Proprietary Limited, paper-back, 608 pages, 4.2 x 12.9 x 19.5 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9780143791010, ISBN-10: 014379101X.

6.8 - The Eye Of The Storm, circa 1973; A. 1 May 2012, 608 pages, 23.24 x 12.45 x 2.69 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9780312595326, ISBN-10: 0312595328.

6.9 - A Fringe Of Leaves, circa 1976; A. 1 April 2010, Random House, Australia, paper-back, 416 pages, 2.6 x 12.6 x 19.5 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9781864711486, ISBN-10: 1864711485.

6.10 - The Twyborn Affair, circa 1979; A. circa August 1995, Random House Britain, paper-back, 432 pages, 19.8 x 12.9 x 4.0 centimeters, ISBN-13: 9780099458210, ISBN-10: 0099458217.

7.0 - Tom Ronan, 11 November 1907, Perth, Western Australia, to: 15 July 1976, Adelaide, South Australia, an Australian writer of historical fiction; three of Tom Ronan's texts are listed directly beneath:

7.1 - The Pearling Master, circa 1958; A. circa 1958, London: Cassell, 318 pages; B. circa 1967, Sydney, New South Wales: Angus And Robertson, 275 pages, OCLC: 468624.

7.2 - Moleskin Midas, circa 1956; A. 

circa 1956, London: Cassell; B. circa 1982, Currey O'Neil, ISBN-10: 0855506326, ISBN-13: 9780855506322.

7.3 - Vision Splendid, circa 1954; A. circa 1954, London: Cassell; B. circa 1972, Lloyd O'Neil, ISBN-10: 085550336X, ISBN-13: 9780855503369.

7.4 - Strangers On The Ophir, circa 1945; A. circa 1945, Sydney: Dymocks; B. circa 1966, Angus & Robertson: Pacific Books, Sydney.

7.5 - Refer to the 'Tom Ronan' web-page of the Austlit Education website: <https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A24264?mainTabTemplate=agentWorksBy>.

8.0 - Arthur Upfield, Arthur William Upfield, 1 September 1890, Gosport, Hampshire, England to: 12 February 1964 (aged 73), Bowral, New South Wales; two of Arthur Upfield's texts are listed directly beneath:

8.1 - The Man Of Two Tribes, circa 1956; A. circa 1956, Heinemann, London; B. circa 1981, London: Angus & Robertson, paper-back, 214 pages, 18 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0207141029.

8.2 - The Sands Of Windee, circa 1931; A. circa 1931, Hutchinson, London, ix-x, 11-291 pages, OCLC / WorldCat: 1878469; B. the first Australian edition, circa 1958, Angus And Robertson, Sydney.

9.0 - John O'Grady, John Patrick O'Grady, 9 October 1907, Waverley, New South Wales, Australia, to 14 January 1981 (aged 73) Oatley, New South Wales, Australia; four of John O'Grady's texts are listed directly beneath:

9.1 - They're A Weird Mob, circa 1957—an Australian comic novel on Italian migrants, published under the pseudonym: "Nino Culotta"; A. a re-print, circa 1974, Sydney and Auckland: Ure Smith, a division of Paul Hamlyn Proprietary Limited, 212 pages, ISBN-10: 0725403985; B. due to the fact the book was a best-seller, it was adapted to a film: premiere at Sydney, 18 August 1966, 112 minutes—written by Richard Imrie, directed by Michael Powell and produced by Williamson-Powell International Films.

9.2 - Are You Irish Or Normal?, circa 1970—published under the pseudonym: Sean O'Grada, with commentary by "Murphy" and illustrations by Paul Rigby; A. circa 1984, Sydney: Landsdowne Press, viii, 240 pages, with illustrations, 21 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0701816562.

9.3 - Aussie Etiket; Or, Doing Things The Aussie Way, circa 1971; A. circa 1974, Sydney: Ure Smith, 104 pages, ISBN-10: 0725400676.

10.0 - Morris West, Morris Langlo West, 26 April 1916, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia, to: 9 October 1999 (aged 83), Clareville, New South Wales, Australia; six of Morris West's texts are listed directly beneath:

10.1 - Children Of The Sun, circa 1957—an investigation of the slums of post-war Naples; the title in the United States Of America was: Children Of The Shadows: The True Story Of The Street Urchins Of Naples; A. 1 January 1957, William Heinemann Limited, ISBN 10: 0434859028, ISBN 13: 9780434859023; 

B. circa 2000, Melbourne, Australia: Bolinda Press, 311 pages (large print), 20 centimeters, ISBN 1740302036; C. circa 2017, Allen And Unwin, 192 pages; ISBN-10: 1760297550, ISBN-13: 9781760297558.

10.2 - The Devil's Advocate, circa 1959; A. London: Heinemann, 300 pages, 21 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0434859044, ISBN-13: 9780434859047.

10.3 - Daughter Of Silence, circa 1961; A. circa 1961, Heinemann, 274 pages; B. circa 1962, Pan Books, 223 pages, 8ð, ISBN-10: 0330102532, ISBN-13: 9780330102537; C. the novel was adapted and produced as a Broadway play, circa 1961: refer to Playbill, <https://www.playbill.com/production/daughter-of-silence-music-box-theatre-vault-0000002628>.

10.4 - The Shoes Of The Fisherman, circa 1963; A. circa 1963, London: William Heinemann Limited, with the imprint Heinemann; B. 1 June 1963, William Morrow And Company, ISBN-10 ‎0688024688, ISBN-13 ‎978-0688024680; C. circa 1976, London: Fontana, 256 pages; D. 1 June 1963, William Morrow And Company, ISBN-10: ‎0688024688, ISBN-13: 978-0688024680.

10.5 - The Clowns Of God, circa 1981; A. 1 May 1981, William Morrow And Company, ISBN-10 ‎0688004490, ISBN-13 ‎978-0688004491.

10.6 - Lazarus, circa 1990; A. circa 1990, New York: St. Martin's Press, 312 pages, ISBN-10: 0312 043392.

11.0 - Hal Porter, Harold Edward Porter, 16 February 1911, Albert Park, Victoria, Australia to 29 September 1984 (aged 73); three of Hal Porter'ss texts are listed directly beneath:

11.1 - A Handful Of Pennies, 1 January 1958, the text is listed with the library of the Australian War Memorial at Canberra, but there appears to be no recent editions; A. Angus And Robertson, 218 pages, ASIN: ‎B000ODKF6W.

11.2 - The Tilted Cross, circa 1961; A. circa 1971, Faber and Faber, London, 266 pages, ISBN-13: 9780851792101, ISBN-10: 0851792103.

11.3 - The Watcher On The Cast-Iron Balcony, circa 1963; A. circa 1963, 

Series: University of Queensland Press non-fiction, 255 pages, 21 centimeters, ISBN: 0702225584.

12.0 - Randolph Stow, Julian Randolph Stow, 28 November 1935, Geraldton, Western Australia, to 29 May 2010 (aged 74), Harwich, Essex, England, Britain; six of Randolpg Stow's texts are listed directly beneath:

12.1 - To The Islands, circa 1958—the text is partially based on the Australian out-back, Christian Missionary, Ernest Gribble, Ernest Richard Bulmer Gribble, 23 November 1868 to 18 October 1957; the text won the 1958 Miles Franklin Award; A. refer to the more recent edition, circa 2002: xvii, 186 pages; 20 centimeters, St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, ISBN 0-7022-310-6.

12.2 - Tourmaline, circa 1963, circa 1965; A. circa 1965, MacDonald, London, 224 pages; B. circa 1983, New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 221 pages; 22 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0800877977.

12.3 - The Merry-Go-Round In The Sea, circa 1965; A. circa 1965, 

MacDonald And Company, 276 pages, ISBN-10: 0140028358.

12.4 - Visitants, circa 1979; A. circa 1981 London: Picador in association with Secker & Warburg, 182 pages, 20 centimeters, ISBN-10: 0330263781, ISBN-13: 9780330263788.

12.5 - The Suburbs Of Hell, circa 

1984—the novel on serial killers is titled in reference to the drama The Duchess Of Malfi, circa 1613, by John Webster: the character, Bosola says: "Security some men call the suburbs of hell / Only a dead wall between"; A. 

New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 182 pages, ISBN-10: 0800874870.

12.6 - A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems, circa 1969—the text won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, circa 1969; A. circa 1969, 76 pages, paper-back, ISBN-10: 0207134065.

Figure I. A photo of the cover of the circa 1969 edition of Randolph Stow's A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems.

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Ten Books To Read — By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 28 May 2023.

1.0 – Blog's Title: Ten Books To Read — By Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 28 May 2023.

1.1 – Contents:

2.0 – 2.3: Legal Disclaimer /

3.0 – 3.6: An Introductory Comment On The List Of Ten Books /

4.0 – 4.6: The Desert Of The Tartars, 

circa 1938 by Italian author: Dino Buzzato /

5.0 – 5.2: The Abyss / French: L'Œuvre au noir, circa 1968 by Belgian-French author: Marguerite Yourcenar /

6.0 – 6.3: About A Boy, circa 1998 by British author: Nick Hornby /

7.0 – 7.4: Gallowglass, circa 1990 by crime-fiction author: Barbara Vine /

8.0 – 8.2: Norwegian Wood,ノルウェイの森, circa 1987 by Japanese author: Haruki Murakami /

9.0 – 9.2: Corporal Hitler's Pistol 15 June 2022 by Australian author: Tom Keneally /

10.0 – 10.5: I Am Legend, circa 1954, by North American author: Richard Matheson //.

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2.0 – Legal Disclaimer: This blog post is the exclusive intellectual property of Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Google email: craigsjlacey@gmail.com.

2.1 – By way of law, no hacking, copying, editing or disseminating of the blog is permitted.

2.2 – Ten photographic reproductions, jpegs, have been used within this blog: nested as the final sub-point, each of which is used within the editorial-educational rights's context.

2.3 – Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Australia; 17 April 2023, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4000; Copyright 2023, Craig Steven Joseph Lacey.

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3.0 – An Introductory Comment On The List Of Ten Books: I have decided to write a list, that is of books which I have been intending to read, and to publish that list on this, my blogger site: Dont.Get.Mouthy.With.Me.

3.1 – There are many lists of must-read books nowadays, such as from Times Magazine and Le Monde, which advocate what is essential in cultural nous, but I am really writing for my-self, no-one else, and, perhaps, whoever wishes to read the same or similar books as my-self?

3.2 – My choices are often quite personal: I will mostly keep undisclosed as to the reasons why I keep confidentiality, and in any case, the sociology is of primary importance.

3.3 – Every-thing I write and publish on-line is my own: I write in total isolation at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

3.4 – I hope my blogs will be read: I have few replies and continue to be marred using technology platforms, with-out naming names of technology provider.

3.5 – The possibility of being edited and censored on the Internet from out-side of Australia, such as from Asian governmental agencies, is more realistic than I had ever considered.

3.6 – Living in such times, it is almost impossible to focus on literature, art, design and culture: I continue to do as such, as is my right.

4.0 – The Tartar Steppe / Il Deserto Dei Tartari, literally: 'The Desert Of The Tartars', also published as: The Stronghold / La Fortezza, is a text by Italian author: Dino Buzzati, first published circa 1938.

4.1 – The text was influenced by the poem of 1904: Waiting For The Barbarians by the Greek poet: Constantine P. Cavafy.

4.2 – Dino Buzzati's text was re-published: 1 November 2005 by Verba Mundi, in an English language translation; 198 pages: ISBN-10‎ 1567923046; ISBN-13‎ 978-1567923049; Item Weight‎: 9.6 ounces; Dimensions ‎5.5 x 0.61 x 8.25 inches.

4.3 – The Opposing Shore / Le Rivage des Syrtes, circa 1951 by the French author:

Julien Gracq, is based on a similar topic: Publisher José Corti; Published in English circa 1986, 353 pages.

4.4 – The novel was adapted in to a film of the same title, translated as: The Desert Of The Tartars, 29 October 1976, 140 minutes, by Italian director: Valerio Zurlini, that features the actors: Jacques Perrin as Drogo, Max von Sydow as Ortiz, Vittorio Gassman as Filimore and the film score is by Ennio Morricone.

4.5 – Dino Buzzati's text influenced the Australian–South African author: J. M. Coetzee's text of 27 October 1980, viz. 

Waiting For The Barbarians, Secker & Warburg, 156 pages; hard-cover edition; ISBN: 0-436-10295-1, but the title is borrowed from Constantine P. Cavafy's eponymous poem also.

4.6 – The book cover's art, the front of a dust jacket for the first British edition, published by Secker & Warburg, circa 1952, is displayed directly beneath:

5.0 – The Abyss / L'Œuvre Au Noir is a novel of circa 1968 by the Belgian-French author: Marguerite Yourcenar.

5.1 – The edition I researched is published by Noonday Press / Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Ninth Printing;1 August 1981, 374 pages, ISBN 0374516669; 978-0374516666.

5.2 – The book cover's art is displayed 

directly beneath:

6.0 – About A Boy, circa 1998 is a bildungsroman text by the British author: Nick Hornby.

6.1 – The first edition: 4 May 1998, Gollancz, Britain, hard-back and paper-back, 278 pages, ISBN 0-575-06159-6.

6.2 – The title is a reference to the song: About A Girl, 2.48 minutes, released 15 June 1989, from the album Bleach, DGC label, by the American band: Nirvana.

6.3 – The book cover's art is displayed 

directly beneath:

7.0 – Gallowglass: The above text About A Boy, circa 1998 by Nick Hornby, ought to be read in conjunction with Gallowglass, circa 1990 by Barbara Vine, that is, the nom-de-plume of Ruth Rendell, the celebrated British author of the fictional crime / detective genre.

7.1 – The texts are both "British" and of the 1990s; involve a narrational perspective of a boy and focus on inter-relations with an older, male "mercenary type"; both embroiled through contractual obligations.

7.2 – The publisher is Viking, Britain; Harmony, United States of America, 1 March 1990, pages 304, ISBN 0-670-83241-3.

7.3 – Gallowglass, circa 1990 focuses on an example of the once prolific reported cases of kid-napping and ransom orders of the 1970s and 1980s through-out Europe and the Commonwealth of Nations, including regions of Africa and South East Asia.

7.4 – The book cover's art is displayed 

directly beneath:

8.0 – Norwegian Wood /ノルウェイの森 / Noruwei no Mori, is a novel of circa 1987 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.

8.1 – The book's title is from Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown Away) a song by the British rock band The Beatles specifically their album of 1965: Rubber Soul.

8.2 – The book cover's art is displayed 

directly beneath:

9.0 – Corporal Hitler's Pistol: An Australian text: by the well-known Australian "Jewish / Han" author Tom Kenneally, viz. Corporal Hitler's Pistol, Winner of the 2022 ARA Group Historical Novel Prize.

9.1 – The publisher is Penguin, first edition, 15 June 2022; Paper-back; ‎352 pages; ISBN-10 ‎1760893234; ISBN-13 ‎978-1760893231; ‎19.8 x 2.6 x 13 centimeters.

9.2 – The book cover's art is displayed 

directly beneath:

10.0 – I Am Legend, circa 1954, a post-apocalyptic, horror genre text by the North American author: Richard Matheson, 320 pages; ISBN-10: 9780765357151; ISBN-13: ‎978-0765357151.

10.1 – With the macabre and haunting genres of cultural texts forming the basis of my recent research and blogging, viz. on my other blogger site: thoughtsdisjectamembra—regarding the changeling mythos—a post-apocalyptic genre of text is only feasible to list here.

10.2 – I read the text long ago, and I over-looked the recent filmic adaptation of 14 December 2007, the United States Of America, Parental Guidance-13, TV-14, directed by Francis Lawrence.

10.3 – The available cover art displays a B-grade or pulp fiction, low quality style of text: it ought to be remembered, American film director: Quentin Tarantino made "re-famous" during the 1990s, the schlock of crime and Spaghetti Western styles of such film genre: often the cringe-worthy texts are dismissed by a misguided snobbery.

10.4 – From a sociological perspective, the text is an artefact which can be analysed according to linguistics, semiotics, music and further technical factors.

10.5 – The book cover art is displayed directly beneath:

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'Pledge' by Craig Steven Joseph Lacey.

I'll bleed a river of tears before
I say: "peace comes easy."
To those who do not remember:
"Don't!" —
Those who do: "I doubt it."
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Clear are the memories,
But I wished they weren't.
I've seen too much, but can
Come back center to say:
"You're fortunate to forget."
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Bliss is not ignorance, but
Ignorance is forgetting,
And Utopia is not peaceful,
Unless blissful—for peace

Is always the hard-won fight,

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Over and over again: to owe

The hardship of visions of peace;
On the backs of the voiceless;
The faceless; the Amensaic,
For who the pain is never felt,

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Because nothing ever did happen
After all: as dreams enter days

And nights, the histories of wars

Are fantasies of lost and lonely

Longings, no more.

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But for who's sake really?

It is for the sake of peace;
For Utopia's great bases of columns
Sunk in to Time's chasms of shadow,

From where chaos rises its tide.
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Dare I light upon it;
Dare the visionary;
Dare he more than

A million deaths,

Down, down in to that abyss.
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There is no choice but the illusion
Of that which makes for the rest of us
Pain and suffering, mitigated;
Corruption and the eternal
Devouring thing, managed.

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© Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 2020.

Image. Eerie Corridor (1999) by Siegfried Zademack.

'The Wonder of Hanging Rock' by Craig S. J. Lacey.

Note: this webpage is still under construction, 19 January 2021.

¶1 The Foreword Of Joan Lindsay's Picnic At Hanging Rock, circa 1967, F.W. Cheshire. In Joan Lindsay's Foreword to her text: A Picnic At Hanging Rock, circa 1967, a commentary is provided in reference to the text's basis on historical truth that establishes the narrative as an abduction / murder mystery, rather than a super-natural thriller of completely fantastical origins. That is: the truth is, the disappearances really did occur of Christian, Celtic-origin school girls during the year 1900, 14 February: Saint Valentine's Day, at the Macedon region of Victoria, Australia.

¶2 Joan Lindsay has written: '...all the characters who appear [in the book] are long since dead...'. Because only real people, viz. historical figures, can really die, the characters of the text can be taken as based on real-life persons. To be of the state of death such that the phrase "long since dead" can be applied in the real context that the phrase engenders, is to verily relate the facts of death having occurred to the people who really lived and upon who the text's "characters" have been modelled.

¶3 In such a phrase: "long since dead", there may be the further inference, death was known to have taken the girls at Hanging Rock: the silence or mystery by an ellision of the facts in Joan Lindsay's text is an indication of censorship. If censorship occurred, it further indicates that the facts of the girls' murders were secreted in order to protect the identities of the perpetrators, such that a conspiracy is indicated.

¶4 Disclaimer: © Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 2021–2024 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. E-mail: CraigSJLacey@gmail.com or ElliottTHMcKenzie@gmail.com.