Dr Cogito endures Melbourne’s fifth … and sixth and seventh… lockdown
I am reposting this post from maybe May or June. In Melbourne now all the weeks…
Report from a besieged city (Melbourne)
And again, now in September, I repost this act of refusal to submit to despair. *****…
Dr Cogito endures Melbourne’s fifth lockdown
And so it seems, the people of Melbourne again must endure this impoverished choice in their lives, as they endure another siege by public health. But such infinite possibility is there in those choices: of attitude, of gesture, of a last word.
Report from a besieged city (Melbourne)
Today 12 February, Melbourne and all the citizens of Victoria have been thrown, with eleven hours…
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The Coming Renaissance of the Second Culture
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