KERRY
POWER
Melbourne,
Australia
On yellow paper, placed in
Parliament Station, platform 4, Melbourne Underground:
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The real reality, the flickering of
seen and unseen actualities, the moment under the moment, can't be put
into words; the most a writer can do - and this is only rarely achieved
- is to write in such a way that the reader finds himself in a place
where the unwordable happens off the page. |
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from The Moment
under The Moment
(foreword)
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Kerry's 2007 4qation
This year I chose the opening
paragraph from The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. It is somewhat special
as it is the first paragraph of Russ' adult books I ever read. It is quite
beautiful.
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There are no lions any more. There had been
lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion
of their running still flickered on the dry wind - tawny, great, and
quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-coloured moon shivered to the silence of
a ghost-roar on the rising air.
from The Lion of
Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz |
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Left on a seat, platform 4, Parliament
Station, Melbourne.
Kerry
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Kerry's 2006 4qation
This year I chose a quotation from The
Mouse and his Child:
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There's nothing beyond the last visible
dog but us. |
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Yearly trek down to the
Melbourne underground, Parliament Station, the bench seat, Platform 4.
- Kerry
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Kerry's 2005 contribution
Hi,
I have included two quotes this year. The first from Fremder. I love
the idea of the mystery in the spaces of black between the pictures.
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Being is not a steady state but an
occulting one: we are all of us a succession of stillness blurring into
motion on the wheel of action, and it is in those spaces of black between
the pictures that we find the heart of mystery in which we are never
allowed to rest. |
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The second quote is the opening line of
Riddley Walker. I have included it because so many people have
discovered Russ through Riddley Walker. This opening line is such a
challenge. You can choose then and there to stop (eg., its too hard at first
glance) or to read on...and so begin a journey of wondrous discovery.
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On my naming day when I come 12 I gone
front spear and kilt a wyld boar he parbly ben the las wyld pig on the
Bundel Downs any how there hadnt ben none for a long time befor him nor I
aint looking to see none agen. |
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Once again (four years in a row now) I
descended to the Melbourne Underground, and left the yellow A4 on a seat,
platform 4, Parliament Station, Melbourne.
Kerry Power
General Manager
Health Care
Transport Accident Commission
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Kerry's 2004 quote
It has taken me a little while to
my quote post this year, but here it is.....
I decided to choose a quote from Fremder for SA4QE 2004 after reading
it again in 2003. It is a great book - and underrated! I was happy and
surprised to later find that the quote has made appearances in each of the
previous SA4QE events. I guess over the years we Krakenites may have to begin
monitoring the most quotable quotes. This quote has now made appearances in
the USA, Europe and Australia at least!
As per previous years on February 4th,
during lunch hour at work, I wandered down to nearby Parliament Station in
Melbourne and left the yellow A4 on a seat on Platform 4.
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More and more I find life is a series of
disappearances followed usually but not always by reappearances; you
disappear from your morning self and reappear as your afternoon self; you
disappear from feeling good and reappear feeling bad. And people, even
face to face and clasped in each other's arms, disappear from each other.
- from Fremder,
page 32 |
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See you again next year!
Regards
Kerry Power
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Kerry's 2003 Quote
Hi everyone,
I was
tempted after "Trubba Not" last year to add "No Trubba"
this year, but I am hoping this is something the UN Security Council is more
likely to say.
...then I
remembered loving a chapter toward the end of Angelica's Grotto and how
it was vintage Hoban... so I chose a line from this chapter (48:
"Loomings"):
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You said you were going to tell me
about the more. The thing
about the more is that it comes after what comes before it. When it's
ready it'll make itself known. |
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from ANGELICA'S GROTTO
I
followed my approach of last year and ventured back to the Underground - it
just seems appropriate (my own reverential Hoban tradition for SA4QE) to
leave it there, on a seat, platform 4, Parliament Station, Melbourne.
See you
next year!!!
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KERRY'S
2002 QUOTE
Placed
in underground train:
Trubba
Not
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from RIDDLEY WALKER
I
first read Riddley soon after it was available here in Oz and I found the
language facinating...RW is a great book to read out loud...I encouraged my
friends to read the book and soon we were using a few words from the book,
like Arga Warga and Comping Station (we worked in insurance!)...but the
most common words we used were “Trubba not”...it has now become a part of
my own family sayings... I say “Trubba not” and the kids respond “No
Trubba”, even though they have not yet read RW or his adult books - they
know him quite well from Frances, The Mouse and His Child and other “kids”
books.
So, when it came to selecting a RH quote, this seemed to be the logical
choice - it contains the simple innocence of Riddley and if we think about
it hard enough, the two words have a depth about them that we could all
find comfort from in today's world. If only we could go to the UN
and
say “Trubba Not” and all the countries of the world reply “No Trubba”.
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