by Gail Jones
Sometimes, however, she seemed flushed and distressed, believing herself lost and trapped somewhere down in third-class; so I would guide her gently to my own bed and place her there to sleep beside me, keeping her very safe, utterly safe, in the house of breathing, where, despite everything, one remained alive during the night.
And if she began crying, which she occasionally did, I would put both my arms around her, encircle her completely, and whisper in my own voice sshh!, sshh!
Bibliographical Acknowledgements
The following books have been employed in the composition of these stories, either by citation or as reference.
1. MODERNITY
Jurij Lotman, The Semiotics of Cinema, Ann Arbor, 1976.
2. THE ASTRONOMER TELLS OF HER LOVE
A E Roy & D Clarke, Astronomy: Structure of the Universe, Adam Hilger, 1977.
3. OTHER PLACES
Jill Jolliffe, East Timor: Nationalism and Colonialism, University of Queensland Press, 1978.
Bill Nicol, Timor: The Stillborn Nation, Visa, 1978.
4. THE PRECISION OF ANGELS
Fr Pascal Parente, Beyond Space: A Book About The Angels, Tan, 1973.
5. DARK TIMES
Richard Holmes, Shelley—The Pursuit, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.
Paul Foot, Red Shelley, Bookmarks, 1984.
Thomas Hutchinson (ed.), Shelley: Poetical Works, Oxford University Press, 1970.
6. ‘LIFE PROBABLY SAVED BY IMBECILE DWARF’
Ronald W Clark, Freud: The Man and the Cause, Granada, 1982.
Peter Gay, Freud: A Life For Our Time, Dent, 1988.
7. VERONICA
Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, Penguin, 1975.
8. ON THE PITEOUS DEATH OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
Edna Nixon, Mary Wollstonecraft: Her Life and Times, J M Dent, 1971. Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of The Rights of Woman, ed. Miriam Kramnick, Pelican, 1975.
9. THESE EYES
William Shakespeare, King Lear, Signet, 1963.
Acknowledgements
I wish to thank Susan Midalia for her intelligent editorial assistance, her consistent encouragement and the various privileges and pleasures of her friendship. Thanks too, to Ray Coffey for his splendidly incisive editorial expertise.
‘Modernity’ was previously published in Heroines: Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing, editor Dale Spender, Penguin Books Australia Ltd., 1991.
Fremantle Arts Centre Press receives financial assistance from the Western Australian Department for the Arts.
The creative writing program of Fremantle Arts Centre Press is assisted by the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.
Copyright
Copyright © Gail Jones 1992.
First published in 1992 by Fremantle Arts Centre Press
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