where the past is not past and culture is not in flames
Welcome to the Burning Archive. Here since 2015 I have kept safe from the flames of cultural decay my responses to the writers, stories, institutions and traditions that make the flowers of my mind.
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Jeff Rich, Melbourne, 2022.
In reading Austerlitz last night, I stumbled on the passage in which the relayed memories of Austerlitz tell of his ambling into the strangely desolate town in which lie the ruins from which he has averted his attention for four decades. Here he finds the reason for his long avoidance of his personal and national […]
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