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Murnane archive

       Gerald Murnane's Barley Patch is one of the most impressive books I've read in recent years. The current issue of Music & Literature devotes considerable space to this still under-appreciated author -- and among the neat things now accessible on their site is The Three Archives of Gerald Murnane.
       A glimpse and suggestion of what's in them, rather than the actual contents -- which: "will not be made public until after his death" -- but still .....
       To list just a random sequence from the list of folders (all of which I'd want to read):
  • GM's list of readable books
  • The passage that made me a magyar
  • The coast near Warrnambool
  • Gerard Windsor's first fuck
  • Brian Porter is revealed as a fool
  • My hatred for literary critics
  • Wimoweh!
  • Masturbation
  • Female masturbation
  • Peter Craven thinks I could win the Nobel Prize
  • My 1,600- word palindrome
       If they're taking applications for that archivist-position, come the day .....

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