on the plain below Troy. On the side of a vase, with horse tail and erection, neither of which I noticed, he ... myself, but you’ve been good so far. High horse fought base appetite and lost. We ripped the foil from ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Us and them: On the importance of animals "' In the eyes of a butcher a horse is already dead,' wrote Georges Bataille.  What happens when we turn this look, this strangely blind and indifferent gaze, into an industry? How can we ...

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birds, deer and horses; and in America the Wrangler Jeans’ “We Are Animals” campaign featured moody ... “In the eyes of a butcher a horse is already dead,” wrote Georges Bataille. When I read this, I ...

The Monthly - Anna Krien - 2012-03-13 09:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

they’ve joined a gay rugby team until weeks – sometimes months – later. Evidently the homoerotic horsing ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2012-04-05 16:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

writer Mia Freedman felt it might have all gone too far. “We’re frightening the horses,” she wrote on her ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

was pretty Tom Sawyer. I had my own horse. I built my own raft. I went fishing. I was going down mine shafts ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2011-12-19 13:24 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

children and neighbours, all placed in a horse-jumping and farming community as vividly Australian ... Horses, Les Murray) ...

The Monthly - Carmen Callil - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in difficult birth, and once a lamed horse.” “Well, good. That’s a relief.” “Mind you, I don’t think I ...

The Monthly - Janette Turner ... - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

solely because it was on a hip label – so something from Factory, ZE or M Squared. Patti Smith Horses ... Horses, Rock music, Rock'n'roll, Rolling Stones, Vinyl collections, Vinyl records) ...

The Monthly - Robert Forster - 2011-12-01 14:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Miranda July on shoplifting "In time, I improved. I discovered that stealing required a loose, casual energy, a sort of oneness with the environment, like surfing or horse-whispering. And once I knew I could do it I felt strangely obliged to." ...

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But the horse may already have bolted. Gambling is so entrenched in Australian sport that tightening the reins ...

The Monthly - Jonathan Horn - 2011-11-04 15:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

was my grandfather’s reward for serving in the Australian Light Horse Brigade in the Battle of Beersheba. ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-10-07 13:05 - 14 comments - 0 attachments

want for nothing compared to the jerk in the hatchback. And you’ve got a lot more horse power. They’re horse surrogates, really. Long ago the squire – or the squatter, or the trooper – enjoyed the same ... manner of ways, but one of the more consequential was the supply of horses. Put a poor man on a fair ...

The Monthly - Don Watson - 2011-09-26 15:34 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

breathes into them new sick, refreshing life. They care nothing for what a horse is. A horse has no fate ... to the deep, dirt soul of Horse. They belong on the Horse side, those humans, like a grafting of two species into one. Even now Brian Mayfield-Smith goes to Horse to be at peace. He did so as a boy around his ...

The Monthly - Craig Sherborne - 2009-04-28 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

him jumping, naked, while holding a toy horse in front of his genitals. The six-character caption ...

The Monthly - Terry Smith - 2011-06-02 13:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

horse. Outside Myers’ entrancing miniature of a recent Australian past is an almost invisible extra: ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-06-02 13:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

associated with it. The ending is as predictable as a Mills & Boon novel. The hero horse misses the start but, through its supernatural talent, passes one horse then another and another, until it surges ... uneasily. Somehow it was hard to reconcile this lazy fellow with the horse that held the Melbourne Cup ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-09-30 12:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of the squatter culture. Ruby’s father (Langton’s great-grandfather) had an ‘outfit’ – horse, dray, dogs ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-18 10:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

from entanglements of destroyed wire-fencing and feeding their horses stranded on islands. ... was going to the pub to pay them for that week. I still see him sitting his pied horse in the shade ...

The Monthly - Alex Miller - 2012-02-22 11:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

parade, the horse that had thrown Stalin. When Maggie arrived at the reception with the other dancers, ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-03-30 14:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

untamed true men.” Band Of Horses, Grizzly Bear, Boy and Bear, Leader Cheetah, Gypsy & The Cat. ...

The Monthly - Paul Kelly - 2011-02-14 08:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

no longer get away with merely looking respectable and staying upright on a horse: radio requires him ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-10-20 11:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in a drawer. When he’s 18 he gets a horse. He thanks the old lady, mounts the horse and clops away ...

The Monthly - Helen Garner - 2011-09-11 09:23 - 3 comments - 0 attachments

this horse-trading is peak gas. Former CEO of Shell, Jeroen van de Meer, spoke in 2009 on the implications of peak ...

The Monthly - Robyn Davidson - 2011-09-21 08:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

all year. The big-name cast in a sense causes the movie to become something of a Trojan horse ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2010-11-04 12:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments