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Continuity and identity are themes in Malouf's sublime
discourse in his celebrated prose:
"In my own land I too am the keeper of something: of the great
book of words of my tongue. No, not mine, my people's, which they
have made over centuries, up there in our part of the world, and in
which, if you have an ear for these things and a nose for the
particular fragrance of a landscape, you may glimpse forests, lakes,
great snow-peaks that hang over our land like the wings of birds. It
is all there in our mouths. In the odd names of our villages, in the
pet-names we give to pigs or cows, and to our children too. . . . We
recapture on our tongue . . . the same word in the mouths of our long
dead fathers, whose blood we move in and whose blood still moves in
us. Language is that blood."
David Malouf, "The only speaker of his tongue" Antipodes
(Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1985), 69.
Marshall Sahlins has written that "There is no such thing as an
immaculate perception."
- Regum aequabit opes animis C. S. Lewis Pilgrim's Regress
5. IV
- "We are what our thoughts make
us."
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- The journey is characterized by a conversation between past
narratives and our narrative.
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- aien aristeuein Always strive for the
best.
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- obest plerumque iis qui dicere volunt auctoritas eorum
qui docent.
- The authority of those who teach tests
most of those who want to speak.
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- Nihil est quod non expugnet pertinax opera,
- et intenta ac diligens cura!
- "There is nothing that will
not surrender to persistent treatment, to concentrated and careful
attention"
- Source: Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Moral
Epistles. English translation byRichard M.
Gummere.
- http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_1.html#
- From Google Answers
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=45269
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This site is maintained in Brisbane
Australia by Greg
This website begun April 3rd 1998 last updated:
22-12-07.
