Category Archives: LaTrobe Reading Room

Sew­ing hooves into a jacket

By Mat | Published: November 13, 2006
The LaTrobe Reading Room at the State Library of Victoria is possessed of such a tranquil, scholarly ambience that, in order to remind the reader of the perfect serenity he or she is privileged to enjoy, it has had to be randomly seeded with unoiled chairs which scream at the lightest touch like a bed full of climaxing banshees.
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Tempt­ing hats, kinky chairs and reverse-somersaulting climaxes

By Mat | Published: June 19, 2005
I've spent much of the last three weeks informing the reader (also the spouse, the neighbour and the teen-aged sales assistant at J.B. HiFi) of my revelation that before I could type a single word of the grand climax of The Last Monk, time would be required to percolate, to mull, and generally to walk around parks scowling at ducks in the vain hope that someone would ask me what I was looking so thoughtful about. Quite a bit of time, I thought. About a fortnight. As it happens, it took about six hours.
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