Sublime
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It started for me in 1946 when I enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to study. The Chifley Government provided free tertiary training for every ex-serviceman who would apply for it.
Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more
Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more
Alistair Knox
Poems
Matthew Jay • 2 cards
George Saunders
Myq Kaplan • 1 card
Hermann Hesse’s Beneath the Wheel
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
The first question which I am tempted to put to the proprietor of such great impropriety is, Who bolsters you? Are you one of the ninety-seven who fail, or the three who succeed? Answer me these questions, and then perhaps I may look at your bawbles and find them ornamental.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Fiction
Ford Higgins • 1 card
‘If one advances confidently,’ Thoreau had written in Walden, ‘in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’
Matt Haig • The Midnight Library: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
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