Re: outback memories
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 11:24:53 +1100
Touche, cobber! Just let me tell you about the time Paul Hogan got his
digeridoo stuck in a huge cooling vat on my Uncle Bruce's vegemite farm. I
was calmly hosing down the family wombat when it happened ... (:
The Bowman sarcasm (All Rights Reserved) strikes again!
Camille Scaysbrook
verona_beach@geocities.com
THE ARTS HOLE
@ http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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> From: Scottie Bowman <bowman@mail.indigo.ie>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: outback memories
> Date: Saturday, 28 March 1998 0:17
>
>
> I'm amazed at what Camille tells us about herself. I'd hate
> to let this become personal, but any Ozzies I ever met were
> a quite extraordinary colour - certainly not apricot pink. All of
> them, in fact, had this curious earthen tint with white & yellow
> streaks painted over their faces. Really rather weird. I've always
> found them a pretty embarassing bunch altogether, actually -
> not least when they hunker down & start scrabbling around in
> the garden, hunting (as I'm told) for ants.
>
> On one occasion, I remember, a small group we had invited to
> a literary evening insisted we all go outside to squat round a fire
> they had prepared - & made us listen for several hours to folk
> chants accompanied by a somewhat monotonous playing on
> their collection of wooden tubes & boxes. This introduction
> to Australian culture at its most typical has left an indelible
> memory.
>
> On another occasion, Germaine Greer invited me - with a guarantee
> of personal safety - to a man-shredding party. I could see
> something was not quite right when GG welcomed me into her hallway
> wearing her cork-rimmed hat - & nothing else except a huge panga
> swinging from a thong on her hip. No one will be surprised to learn
> that I quickly made my excuses & left.
>
> I yield to no one in my admiration for all native cultures.
> At least, in theory. I eagerly await Camille's & Lesley's
> confirmation that my experiences with their compatriots from
> down under have not been unique.
>
> Scottie B.