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'But he and Jim had, at first sight almost, got to the bottome of one another.' p. 64
'Enemies, like friends, told you who you were.' p. 64
Key passages: pp 61, 97, 99, 100, 103.
Key passages: pp. 64, 93, 95.
Bibliography:
Malouf, D. Fly Away Peter, Vintage 1999.
Bob Cleese
& Eric
Wizzer
Key passages:
pp. 73, 75, 84, 87, 88
'...the baleful look his father turned on the world had no reason, it simply was.' p. 6.
Ashley
"He approved of change.' p. 9.
Jim's Father
Key passages: pp. 3, 4, 5, 7,9-13, 31, 35,56, 113, 129, 132.
Jim
Key passages: pp. 6, 48, 55, 56, 58, 132, 138.
'So they became partners, all three...' p. 29
Imogen
Clancy
'...she often made these distinctions, putting things clearer, moving them into sharper focus.' p. 28
'...always in trouble... someone {Jim} wouldn't want to be without.' p. 60
Key passages: pp. 20-28, 48, 50, 57, 111, 137.
Key passages:
pp. 59, 60, 67, 76, 85.
Living in a ‘state of dangerous innocence’ p. 103
Death of his younger brother a strange premonition? ‘the inhuman shriek – he had thought it was some new and unknown bird entering the field’ p. 103
Coastal Queensland - swampland
Chapters 1-8
Sanctuary/Garden of Eden
(Tranquility, harmony and peace)
Brisbane
Chapter 5
Europe - Before the fighting
Chapters 9-11
(Innocence endangered)
France - war in trenches
Chapters 11-17
Hell
Queensland/Beach
Chapter 18
Eternity and nature
Final Considerations...
'Tilt'
'Jim felt the ground tilting... to the place where the war was...' p. 56.
Key passages: pp. 37, 38, 39, 56.
Maps
'He had a map of all this clearly in his head...' p. 2
Key passages: pp. 2, 54, 55, 62, 111, 122.
Machines
Jim's father: 'And their machines!'
Bert and his 'flying machines' pp. 2, 3, 51.
Automobiles p. 6.
Machine guns pp.92, 104, 115. 'Parapet Joe' p 52.
Planes as weapons p. 52.
War as 'murderous machine' p. 106.
Guns as '... deadly sewing machines' p. 115.
Cigarette is a 'cloud machine' p. 121.
Lists
List making/cataloguing:
Birds, soldiers.
‘
Key passages: pp. 1, 44, 59.
World War 1 - 1914-1918
Federation of Australia - 1901
ANZAC legend
Naming
Need for permanency/recording
'...and in that way possessing them.' (p. 7)
'It was giving the creature, through its name, a permanent place in the world’
(p. 44)
‘It was the names of the places … that Jim loved to hear.’ (p. 59)
‘Everything here had been renamed and then named again.’ (p. 76)
‘It seemed more important than ever now to hang on to the names…’ (p. 112)
Perspective and Seeing
Consider:
Ground level: observing birds/in the trenches.
Upright: how humans move throughout the world.
Above: from the bi-plane/bird's eye view/in death.
(Monuments p. 13,
Primaeval world p. 31, Mammoth p. 102)
'Is that it? Jim wondered. Is that how it always must be?' p. 128
'So much of what a man was existed within and was known only to himself...' p. 41
A life wasn't for anything, it simply was.'
p. 140.
by David Malouf