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May. 2nd, 2004 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringI love Bookcrossing. That's why I'm writing another book about it, this time I hope it will be a bit more incisive or insightful or something than the last one. Anyway, I wrote an opening a few days back, thought it was a bit flat and left it. This morning I took it up again and almost immediately ran into a hook of a book to hold up the narrative. Just sitting in the back of my mind, I guess, but it came forward when required.
That book is Bruce Chatwin's Songlines, which is a Pom's look at Australia, or the middle bit of Australia anyway. He describes the way Aboriginal Australians used to navigate their way around the country without maps, and they did this by describing journeys in the form of chants which were passed on from tribe to tribe and generation to generation. It's a good metaphor for what I want to do with this book, which is to string along thoughts and places and events without much reference to maps or timelines or philosophy systems.
Or maybe it's just a way for me to justify rambling at random...
That book is Bruce Chatwin's Songlines, which is a Pom's look at Australia, or the middle bit of Australia anyway. He describes the way Aboriginal Australians used to navigate their way around the country without maps, and they did this by describing journeys in the form of chants which were passed on from tribe to tribe and generation to generation. It's a good metaphor for what I want to do with this book, which is to string along thoughts and places and events without much reference to maps or timelines or philosophy systems.
Or maybe it's just a way for me to justify rambling at random...
