But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed wasโperhaps rightlyโscathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.
Thomas KeneallyThe principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.
Thomas KeneallyAnd I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.
Thomas KeneallyUm, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.
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