![]() ![]() The deliberate turns are meant to keep it in a soothing half-spin with certain chosen parts to the light, but I am not an utter coward, and I don’t mind inspecting some of the dark patches… Only I like to manipulate the globe myself. It is miraculously suspended and will spin in response either to a deliberate turn or an accidental flick. ![]() ![]() “suspended in my head, and ever since the shocking realization that waste is irretrievable, I have been careful not to let this globe spin to expose the nether side…Its surface is inscribed with thousands, no, millions of images. Memory, the suppression of it, the mystery of it, the fear of it and its wavering, unreliable aspects are at the core of Tirra Lirra by the River (1978). She is in her seventies and has been gone from the country of her birth for most of her adult years. She is suffering a bout of pneumonia and is under the care of her neighbors and Doctor Rainbow, the son of a childhood friend. Nora Porteous returns to her childhood home in Brisbane, Australia when “the household at number six”, the heart of her life in London, “explodes’”. ![]()
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