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Seabird she flies ....

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Contents Whole Lotta Love  Easy Rider Millenium Madness White Out Chapter 1 Whole Lotta Love Jeremy sat atop Bobbara, taking in the 222 degree view from 300 metres up across the rolling, tree covered hills and ploughed fields. The big sky was brilliantly blue with intriguing formations of white, fluffy clouds floating aimlessly on high. A slight breeze blew in from the south, coolish as usual, rolling off the distant Snowy Mountains. His mind was clear, free, floating like the clouds, full of nothing and of everything. Time was standing still, and the past flowed all around him. He sat there, on the smooth, weathered granite, letting the thoughts come and go, likes waves on the shore, washing over him. There was her, and them, and all the others. He wondered what it all meant, if anything..... Jeremy Ryder was the son of Ben and Jane, from Timerong, the main town in the weirdly named Hilltops region of New South Wales's south western slopes. The landscape ther

Dada in Australia

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  | Dada in Australia | First International Dada Fair, Berlin 1920 | Dada?!@#$% Dada - A new cult. Abolish everything! ( The Age , Melbourne, 1920) Dada is a rebellious, playful state of mind (Tristan Tzara 1922). DOWN/unda The death on 22 April 2023 of Australian comedian Barry Humphries (1934-2023) brought to a close an episode in antipodean history during which the early twentieth century avant-garde art and anarchic social movement Dada found local expression in the post-World War II period, through art, comedic performance and multi-faceted characterizations, most notably in the form of Humphries' Melbourne-based stunts and practical jokes, culminating in the creation of alter  egos Dame Edna Everidge and Sir Les Paterson. The first element of Humphries' career as a performer on the public stage was celebrated during 1993 by the National Gallery of Australia's smallish side exhibition Big - Barry Humphries: Dada Artist , a supplement to the blockbuste