Excellent news! Today a beaut box of books arrived from book distributors Dennis Jones and Associates to support Indigenous Literature Week 2014 here at ANZ LitLovers. They have also been very generous in donating a most interesting book as a Giveaway. It isn’t a book by an indigenous author – but it will be of interest to anyone keen to know more about life in remote indigenous communities.
The book is Raft, by Howard Goldenberg, a name that is probably familiar to you if you are also a reader of the Whispering Gums blog. Sue recently reviewed Goldenberg’s novel Carrots and Jaffas, and took the opportunity to lead a discussion about the issue of non-indigenous authors writing about indigenous people. Goldenberg has served in many indigenous communities as a relieving doctor over the past decade, and this is what the blurbers say about the book:
Raft is a delicious, warm and…
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Dear cathy
Thank you for your succinct response,which I confess, had me puzzled for a while.
While masterly in its conciseness – consisting as it did/does of but one character – your response stimulated large thought.
The sole character in your letter was the symbol used in mathematical notation to express “greater than”, as in 4 is greater than 3. Such data are useful to know and a reminder will never go astray.
Was there an additional
significance to your letter, I wondered, that I might be missing?
It came to me then that you’d written “greater than” at the head of the page. Your lonely symbol, pregnant with import, said much: “Thus spake LOVE.
Greater than all that might follow, greater than anything below, greater than all is love.”
Cathy Love yours is a message for all time and most pointedly for our own bleeding time.
While aware that my poor response to your broad enlightenment is inadequate, I know that all (“everything below”) is less than love.
Love
Howard
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