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  • Lukasz Spigielhas quoted5 years ago
    Pipalyatjara, unlike many other settlements, was lucky in
  • Lukasz Spigielhas quoted5 years ago
    We all woke up with tight forced smiles which soon enough disintegrated into covert then overt weeping.
  • Lukasz Spigielhas quoted5 years ago
    He was also the most easily
  • Pranav Sharmahas quoted6 years ago
    ‘I’d like you to meet Robyn Davidson, she’s taking camels across Australia.’ I didn’t know quite how to deal with that one except to fall in with it. Another t
  • Pranav Sharmahas quoted6 years ago
    It was the inauspicious beginning of the ‘camel lady’ image which I should have nipped in the bud right there.
  • Pranav Sharmahas quoted6 years ago
    My first impression as we strolled down the deserted street was of the architectural ugliness of the place, a discomforting contrast to the magnificence of the
  • Mary181MChas quoted6 years ago
    It was my turn to smile.
  • Mary181MChas quoted6 years ago
    My geologist friend dropped me off at the pub, and from there I walked north up the Charles River bed. It was a delightful walk, under cool and shady trees. The silence was often broken by packs of camp dogs who raced out with their hackles up to tell me and Diggity to get out of their territory, only to have bottles, cans and curses flung at them by their Aboriginal owners, who none the less smiled and nodded at us.
  • Mary181MChas quoted6 years ago
    run wild up there ya know. You’ll need someone to keep an eye on ya. Tell youze what, I’ll shout youze a beer, then we’ll go back to your cabin and get acquainted eh? Whaddya reckon?’
  • Mary181MChas quoted6 years ago
    ‘G’day, mind if I sit ’ere?’

    (Sighing and looking pointedly out the window or at book.) ‘No.’

    (Dropping of the eyes to chest level.) ‘Where’s yer old man?’

    ‘I don’t have an old man.’

    (Faint gleam in bleary, blood-shot eye, still fixed at chest level.) ‘Jesus Christ, mate, you’re not goin’ to the Alice alone are ya? Listen ’ere, lady, you’re fuckin’ done for. Them coons’ll rape youze for sure
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