"Encore".
2000s, Encore (2004)
“To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.”
"Zero and Sign," p. 23
The Sign and Its Children (2000), Sequence: “The Sign and Nothing”
Source: Skulduggery Pleasant
“We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.”
Source: 2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004), p. 147.
Speech to the Labour Party Conference in Brighton (5 October 1977), quoted in Labour Party Annual Conference Report 1977, p. 217
Prime Minister
"Conversation with a Stone"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
from "Enough Rope With Andrew Denton" on ABC, 2003
"Eidolons" (1988)
Context: Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing through the lid of your glass coffin? Did the New York strip steak you attacked at dinner suddenly show a mouth filled with needle-sharp teeth, and did it snap off the end of your fork, the last solid-gold fork from the set Anastasia pressed into your hands as they took her away to be shot? Is the slab under your apartment building moaning that it cannot stand the weight on its back a moment longer, and is the building stretching and creaking? Did a good friend betray you today, or did that good friend merely keep silent and fail to come to your aid? Are you holding the razor at your throat this very instant? Take heart, comfort is at hand. This is the hour that stretches. Djam karet. We are the cavalry. We're here. Put away the pills. We'll get you through this bloody night. Next time, it'll be your turn to help us.
“When a truth is better conceived through abstraction, use the abstraction; if not, don't.”
