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Oh I dunno, I ascribe to a sort of, no matter where you go, there you are, ideal. I idealize my other homelands just as much as here. But that's what they are these idealised feelings...idealised feelings, to quote a poet,
I live in a land
inner land
ambivalent.I just get tired of certain people trying to draw me out on what makes me feel like a NZer, sort of a Toyota ad, research company feel to it, do you mind if we ask you a few questions...yeah I do actually, I just don't feel the craven need to tell you really, read my books, buy my product, agree with me, I need some more material for next book, blog sell... if the land thing spins your wheels, cool, to quote another (zen) poet,
Look where you travel
the same sky. -
Oh God, in my haste...."Not I, but some child born in a marvelous year / Will learn the trick of standing upright here".
And the spelling errors I have made, I apologise. -
RB, ever wondered why the land thing is so prevalent in our literature? Maybe the other issues were subsumed by it? Then there's the funding issue, but that's another story.
You wrote poetry once, there's a world of differnce between literature and poetry.
Not I this child of a favoured year, will learn this trick of standing upright here...Curnow.
Plus, whenever anyone says Kiwi anymore, especially politicians, I shudder like Lisa Simpson. -
Iwi/ Kiwi failed National abyssmally. Part of the Distancing Ourselves From Don project is to bury the race thing in the Class thing.
And remember in NZ the most commonly used dog command is,
"Get away back!".
And BTW, Asians and Immo's ain't that easily trumped and nor am I.
The reason why JK is so hard to believe is that he is in the wrong party, either he needs approval from The Patriarchy too much, or he is being pulled bt the puppet master.
See the JFK progrom would not have worked if he had have been in the Republican party. -
Not in NZ I would aver Mr Che. My take on this underclass thing is to manufacture this Underclass as The Other. The NZ Muslim community representatives (carefully worded there) have been far to reasonable to set themselves up for Howard style attention. In NZ The Race card doesn't work, so now it's the old Class card. For those who have suffered under NZ egalitarianism, we know it is a small poppy under another name.
Where Key went/ goes wrong is/ was that Labour can easily counter all points with the stats, and they will. -
Isn't The Underclass the new Barbarian Horde?
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By way of helpful explanation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell
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I thought Kurt told us that we are all gay?
At our house we sing Lake Of Fire together...
"Where do bad folks go when they die?
They don't go to Heaven where the angels fly
Theygo to a lake of fire and fry
See you again on the 4th of July."
What do you expect, Christianity is a Death Cult and we've had 2000 years of conditioning.
Cartman is BTW, The Second Coming, Satan told me.
Speaking of which you may all enjoy http://www.los.org/art/Blake.html -
I'm calling BS, my wife's the Best Cook in the Universe and she got tips by local cooks. You just gotta ask and they'll tell all. Plus the ingreds you can get here are insane.
Melbourne smelbourne.
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Melbourne has what edge?