Cut from the same cloth: Oscar and Ned
This is an essay I wrote in 2005 which I don’t think I’ve published on Troppo, and since it’s my journal of record, I’m now doing so.
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Czesław Miłosz: Alpha, the Moralist
Czesław Miłosz is a Polish writer and Nobel Laureate who first came to Western attention in the early 1950s with the publication of The Captive Mind one of the earliest exposes of the nightmare
Standards Part Two: Comparative Standards
Standards: continued from Part One.
The Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop’s fragile business case shows governments need an Evaluator-General
Standards as windows on an alternative universe: Part One
I. Introduction
You heard it first on Troppo folks: Up from the archives
Reading the publicity for this new book I remembered a name — pathologist Colin Manock — thinking it had been at the centre of some deliberations here some time ago. I was right — it had.
Needing The Eggs: 70 Years Of Going Through The Motions
I’ve recently completed an essay and like quite a few of my essays, it’s not been ‘optimised’ for publication in a magazine, so I may not try to publish it. But in case any folks here think it’s of interest, they need only put their email in comments below or email me and I’ll send them access to it on Google docs.
The first of six sections is reproduced below: