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...twelve. At this stage the reader who suspects that the novel is a subversive Australian attempt to prove that its "West" is, if not as wild, at least a great deal woollier than the U.S. West will be right. Along the Ophir River, in the far "backblocks" of Queensland in the '80s, life bravely tried to illustrate Hobbes's definition of man's existence in a state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short...
Gradually the team became divided between the "goers" and the "stayers," but there was no bitterness between the two groups. "I have to go back," one of the goers told a weeping Hungarian girl from Queensland. "My parents are old, and I may be the only one able to give them bread." Crew Coach Zoltan Torok, while still in Prague, had made up his mind to escape in Australia. Others sounded out Australians and U.S. team members, and were given assurances...
...some fun with the locale: Laragh Station, a sheep "run" operated by the Brothers Regan. They are graduate gunmen of the Irish Republican Army who are busy populating their underpopulated principality with a brood of half-caste children, some named sentimentally for great figures of the Irish Troubles. Overproof Queensland rum is their drink; mutton is their food; and once a year a priest arrives on the scene to christen the new children, and to tell the elders that they are living in mortal sin. Mrs. Regan has been "married" to the two brothers in succession...
...Home. In Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, after confessing to the burglary of a jewelry store, Raymond Riley Cox, 24, was admitted to bail by the police court when he explained that his own house had been robbed in his absence and he wanted to "return to see what had been stolen...
This fossil is the only complete skeleton of a Kronosaurus ever found. William E. Schevill '27, research associate in Zoology at the museum, discovered it in 1931, embedded in rock in Army Downs, North Queensland, Australia...