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  The Three Sisters. I re-post this story that I wrote many years ago as a tribute to what I see as “The Italian Style” of storytelling, in that it has all exaggeration and exclamation of the exuberance of that nations storytelling!…I offer no apologies for the long windiness of the narrator, nor the outrageous exuberance of the characters!…just enjoy, if you please, signori. “Buongiorno signore e signora turisti”.. Bertouli called out effusively with appropriate operatic gestures with the arms. ” Welcome to my humble stall….Scusi signora, but your shadow falls on my bowls and utensils and dulls their shine….grazi!” he danced around his wares manipulating the tourists with gentle hand movements, all the while keeping up a running commentary on everything and anything.. “So, just off the train from Naples eh? have a good trip?….see here, this is an exact replica of the Emperor Caligula’s goblet,..that he would use to toast the death stro...
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  Just to say. . . Wagga’s black cat, “Satan”. Hello, followers and readers, I have been busy doing editing and re-writes for my post; “Songs of the Murray Mallee”, as it is was serialised in a hard-copy community magazine. The original post of “Songs of…” was a one long continuous epic poem in 4 Chapters, but I have decided to add certain prose pieces to the epic so as to create a mythological storyline alongside the poem. This was done to give dual depth to the piece..ie; to allow myself to write in poetry of the trials and tribulations of the early pioneers and their families from their first arriving and settling the country alongside the indigenous people here already, and to concentrate on the later threads of post The Great Depression influx of different ethnicities that came into Sth Australia during and after the 2nd WW. I want to develope a mythological-historical storyline of the European settlers and their journey in establishing themselves and their fa...
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  System Commodities. (Emile Munier..1840-1895..”May I have one too?”) System Commodities. Have you ever heard of the phrase : “system commodities”? It refers to the essential commodities required to keep a system…any system, operating at a satisfactory level..a continuity of mediocracy.. and any item superfluous to the accepted parameters of the needs of the system will not be seen as of any use. Interesting…I heard the phrase used by Bob Dylan in answer to a question put to him asking if he thought that music integrity has gotten worse these days…here’s his reply..: “Well..because there’s so much mediocracy going on, you know?..and anytime somebody really good comes along..it’s like, you can’t be too good, because you’re looked at..because you stand out, you know?…and people who stand out in an individual kind of way, they don’t fit into the system, you know, because they don’t sell, you know, they don’t keep system commodities go...
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  The Scriveners Review.. By freefall852 on March 24, 2026 For the Murray Mallee and Regions… vol 2..# 2.                  We know that mysterious spirits do twist and spin,               With eddys and currents, past river cliff and ben d,                           To lazily tease a dreamer’s dreams ,                        From away upstream, to the river’s end.                     A selection of poems and stories by local w...
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