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LARNED - When visitors step onto the grounds of the Fort Larned National Historic State today, they see it as it appeared in the 1860s during the Indian Wars. Mildon Yeager – a retired carpenter who worked at the site for 20 years – also sees years of restoration that took place in the 20th century, and continues to this day.
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The Great Bend High School Panther Booster Club announces their 2016-2017 Booster Club Membership Drive and Activities Program Sponsorship Campaign. Members include alumni, parents, teachers, friends, businesses and community members that are committed to enhance the experience that local students have while participating in activities during their academic careers at Great Bend High School. In addition to membership, the Great Bend High School Panther Booster Club sells and distributes Panther merchandise and select concessions. The Great Bend High School Panther Booster Club is the only program that benefits all Panther Activities and 100% of the proceeds go directly to the ...
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Bovine seminal plasma was submitted to chromatography on Con A-Sepharose. The "non-interacting", "weakly-interacting" and "strongly-interacting" fractions were analyzed through UV-MALDI-TOF MS together with a subfraction of the "non-interacting" material, using sinapinic acid (SA) as matrix. The spectra were obtained in linear positive mode in the 4.0-90.0 kDa mass/charge range showing peaks in well defined zones, namely: 5.5-8.0 kDa, 10.0-12.0 kDa, 12.5-14.0 kDa (major), 23.2-23.7 kDa, 26.1-27.5 kDa and 38.0-40.0 kDa. High sensitivity spectra showed some very small peaks until 90 kDa. Bovine seminal protein (BSP-A3), acidic seminal fluid protein (αSFP) and PDC-109 glycoproteins (BSP-A1 and BSP-A2) were identified. Caltrin, the human epididymis-specific glycoprotein (HE4), the calcium transport inhibitor protein, the inhibitor of metalloprotease 2 (TIMP-2), osteopontin (OPN) and the prostatic acid protease (PAP) were tentatively identified. The molecular weight of some peaks can be arranged in a sequence from that of BSP-A3 going through the molecular weights of glycoforms (including the known BSP-A1 and BSP-A2) which differ in the amounts of neutral hexoses and sialic acids, composing a BSP-family more extended than previously reported. Another two families could be builded up from proteins of molecular weight of about 12730 and 12750 Da and glycoforms which differ from them also by hexoses and sialic acids. The structures of the deduced O-linked oligosaccharides of the glycoforms are in complete agreement to that determined for the BSP-A1 oligosaccharide. Small differences in the m. w. of some (glyco)proteins were attributed to genetic polymorphysm. The identification of proteins and O-linked glycoproteins in the "interacting" fractions of the chromatography suggests that the fractionation was not due to specific affinity interactions but to non-specific hydrophobic interactions of the proteins with the hydrophobic pocked of the Con A.
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Pasadena, CA – Data from each of the two rovers active on Mars reached Earth last week in the successful first relay test of a NASA radio aboard Europe's new Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
The transmissions from NASA rovers Opportunity and Curiosity, received by one of the twin Electra radios on the orbiter on November 22nd, mark a strengthening of the international telecommunications network supporting Mars exploration. The orbiter's main radio for communications with Earth subsequently relayed onward to Earth the data received by Electra.
A NASA radio on Europe's Trace Gas Orbiter, which reached Mars in October 2016, has succeeded in its first test of receiving data from NASA Mars rovers, both Opportunity and Curiosity. This graphic depicts the geometry of the relay from Opportunity to the orbiter, which then sent the data to Earth.
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Pasadena, CA – NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission. No Mars rover has done that before.
The longest-active rover on Mars also will, for the first time, visit the interior of the crater it has worked beside for the last five years. These activities are part of a two-year extended mission that began October 1st, the newest in a series of extensions going back to the end of Opportunity's prime mission in April 2004.
Opportunity launched on July 7th, 2003 and landed on Mars on January 24th, 2004 (PST), on a planned mission of 90 Martian days, which is equivalent to 92.4 Earth days.
This scene from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity shows "Wharton Ridge," which forms part of the southern wall of "Marathon Valley" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The ridge's name honors the memory of astrobiologist Robert A. Wharton (1951-2012). The scene is presented in approximately true color. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.)
Pasadena, CA – Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable — which would be a boon for future astronauts there — if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those in the past.
A published prediction, based on this pattern, points to Mars experiencing a global dust storm in the next few months. "Mars will reach the midpoint of its current dust storm season on October 29th of this year. Based on the historical pattern we found, we believe it is very likely that a global dust storm will begin within a few weeks or months of this date," James Shirley, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Two 2001 images from the Mars Orbiter Camera on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter show a dramatic change in the planet's appearance when haze raised by dust-storm activity in the south became globally distributed. The images were taken about a month apart. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Pasadena, CA – NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer — the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.
Using software developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, Curiosity is now frequently choosing multiple targets per week for a laser and a telescopic camera that are parts of the rover's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. Most ChemCam targets are still selected by scientists discussing rocks or soil seen in images the rover has sent to Earth, but the autonomous targeting adds a new capability.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument. For example, on-board software analyzed the Navcam image at left, chose the target indicated with a yellow dot, and pointed ChemCam for laser shots and the image at right. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS)
Pasadena, CA – Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history.
The determination that these mid-size ripples are a distinct type resulted from observations by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Six months ago, Curiosity made the first up-close study of active sand dunes anywhere other than Earth, at the "Bagnold Dunes" on the northwestern flank of Mars' Mount Sharp.
Two sizes of ripples are evident in this December 13th, 2015, view of a top of a Martian sand dune, from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. Sand dunes and the smaller type of ripples also exist on Earth.
Pasadena, CA – "Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on.
Opportunity recently collected a sweeping panorama from near the western end of this east-west valley. The vista shows an area where the mission investigated evidence about how water altered the ancient rocks and, beyond that, the wide floor of Endeavour Crater and the crater's eastern rim about 14 miles (22 kilometers) away.
"Marathon Valley" on Mars opens to a view across Endeavour Crater in this scene from the Pancam of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity. The scene merges many exposures taken during April and May 2016. The view spans from north (left) to west-southwest. Its foreground shows the valley's fractured texture. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.)
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA – From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below. The view looks back at the rover's tracks leading up the north-facing slope of "Knudsen Ridge," which forms part of the southern edge of "Marathon Valley."
Opportunity took the image using its navigation camera (Navcam) on March 31st, 2016, during the 4,332nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars.
From its perch high on a ridge, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this image of a Martian dust devil twisting through the valley below. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Pasadena, CA – NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is driving to an alternative hillside target after a climb on the steepest slope ever tackled by any Mars rover. Opportunity could not quite get within reach of a target researchers hoped the rover could touch earlier this month.
A new image shows the view overlooking the valley below and catches the rover's own shadow and wheel tracks as Opportunity heads toward its next target.
A shadow and tracks of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity appear in this March 22, 2016, image, which has been rotated 13.5 degrees to adjust for the tilt of the rover. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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Washington, D.C. – NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to study the deep interior of Mars is targeting a new launch window that begins May 5th, 2018, with a Mars landing scheduled for November 26th, 2018.
InSight's primary goal is to help us understand how rocky planets — including Earth — formed and evolved. The spacecraft had been on track to launch this month until a vacuum leak in its prime science instrument prompted NASA in December to suspend preparations for launch.
This artist's concept from August 2015 depicts NASA's InSight Mars lander fully deployed for studying the deep interior of Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Pasadena, CA – NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is working adeptly in some of the most challenging terrain of the vehicle's 12 years on Mars, on a slope of about 30 degrees.
Researchers are using Opportunity this month to examine rocks that may have been chemically altered by water billions of years ago. The mission's current targets of investigation are from ruddy-tinted swaths the researchers call "red zones," in contrast to tan bedrock around these zones.
The targets lie on "Knudsen Ridge," atop the southern flank of "Marathon Valley," which slices through the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
This scene from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks upward at "Knudsen Ridge" from the valley below. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.)


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Carson McCullers, The great eaters of Georgia (Review)
Regular readers of my Library of America (LOA) Story of the Week posts will probably guess why I've chosen to write about this story: it's by an appealing American writer and it's about food. However, it's quite different from the other food stories. Firstly, while it's called "the great eaters" it's more of a little memoir essay albeit structured around food, and secondly, it was published posthumously in 2005. McCullers was born in 1917 (on Feb 19 in fact, so this month in the centenary of her birth) and died in 1967. "The great eaters of Georgia" was written, LOA's notes say, in 1954 but was not published, because …
It's a complex situation, which the Wikipedia article section on her personal life fills in, but the significant thing for us is that she had returned (fled) to the US from Paris in 1953, because her husband had tried to encourage her to commit suicide with him. Soon after her return, he succeeded in taking his life. Now, this is relevant because LOA tells us that McCullers had been offered money by Holiday magazine for a piece on Georgia, but, according to McCullers' biographer Josyane Savigneau, the magazine rejected the article because they were "looking for a lighter, more descriptive, less personal piece."
I guess that's fair enough for a holiday-oriented magazine, but for readers more interested in McCullers than in Georgia – sorry, Georgia – it's great that the piece didn't disappear. Like many people, I've read and/or seen The heart is a lonely hunter and The member of the wedding – but in my case so long ago that my main memory is not of the plots but of melancholy and loneliness, the sorts of emotions that appealed to my teenage self!
But now, "The great eaters of Georgia". It's an intriguing piece that doesn't perhaps quite cohere – certainly as a piece for a holiday magazine. For example, she mentions visiting various people. First is the controversial writer Lillian Smith, who openly confronted such issues as race and gender equality. McCullers writes:
Lill, like other Southerners, feels passionately about the problems of the Negro. Most Georgians do not agree with her, and often when her name is mentioned there is that strange area of silence.
This may not have been what Holiday was looking for, particularly when she adds that during her visit they "discussed Georgia politics". Then she visits psychiatrist Dr Hervey Cleckley. She doesn't share her discussions with him about her husband's suicide – this I learnt from LOA – but they did talk
of the improvement in the understanding of racial problems and the migration from the rural cotton areas to the cities and towns.
Again perhaps not Holiday content? She says they also talked about Dr Crawford Long, a Georgian who was the first to use ether in an operation. You may wonder why this came up, but it resulted from their discussion of "ether parties":
These odd-sounding affairs must have been like marijuana parties to the modern teenager but there was no social stigma attached, and my grandmother told me that, as a young lady, she often held ether parties for her young friends after they had ridden home from church and gathered for Sunday dinner.
Fascinating eh? Dr Long apparently noticed the numbing effect of ether (!) and thought it might work in surgery! I found this interesting because I have reviewed Sawako Ariyoshi's The doctor's wife, which fictionalises the story of Hanaoka Seishū who is believed to have been the first to use general anaesthesia in surgery – in 1804. Long carried out his first surgery in 1842.
Anyhow, I guess McCullers included this story of Long as an example of Georgian ingenuity? Again it may not have been what Holiday was looking for.
She was probably on firmer ground in her description of eating practices and food, because yes, she does talk about those too as the title suggests! I enjoyed little tidbits such as that in her mother's day:
a child wore an asafetida bag around his neck to ward off colds and contagious diseases. Asafetida is the foulest-smelling substance. I suppose it makes good medical sense because one was not apt to go very near a person wearing an asafetida bag.
Hmmm, that's not a food story though asafetida is used in cooking – and, anyhow, it's adds a touch of humour.
She also talks about what great eaters (hence the title) Georgians are – at every meal:
Georgians eat big meals three times a day. I have never gotten over this orange-juice-and-coffee breakfast they have up North. A respectable Georgia breakfast means fish roe and grits or at least eggs or maybe country sausage.
She remembers chewing sugarcane as a child, and the historic cultivation of chinaberry trees "to counteract miasma". She mentions the razing of the home she was born in, and sneaks in a comment about the reduction in (though not removal of) poverty in her home-town, before returning to the subject of breakfasts. She talks of the Yankee vulgarity of referring to children as "kids". And she tells us that fried chicken is probably Georgia's best-known dish, closely followed by "field peas". She surprised me by mentioning a dish I have in my recipe folders from my early recipe-gathering days, Country Captain. It's a sort of curried chicken dish, and I didn't realise it came from the American south.
She also tells us that "any discussion of Georgian food is incomplete without the mention of watermelon" and provides a loving description of the "special operation and procedure" it demands. Fruitcake, tupelo honey, and the smells of Savannah are also shared with us, before she comes to a little anecdote about a "town character", a bachelor who prefers to eat alone. This is very "un-Georgian", and she concludes her piece by saying that
Although we have our share of eccentrics, I know very few Georgians who do not love fellowship, good hunting, food, and laughter—who do not enjoy life.
All in all, it's a fascinating article – for what it tells us about Georgian life and food but more, for the little insights we glean of her interests and her emotional state. A good read for anyone interested in McCullers.
Pam (Travellin' Penguin) has also written a response to this story.
Note: My other LOA food stories are by John Duncan ("A Virginia barbecue"), Ana Menéndez ("Celebrations of Thanksgiving: Cuban offerings"), George G. Foster ("The eating-houses") and George Augustus Sala ("The tyranny of pie").
Carson McCullers
"The great eaters of Georgia"
First published: Oxford American, Spring 2005
Available: Online at the Library of America
Northanger Abbey musings (1)
My Jane Austen group is reading Northanger Abbey – again – because this year is the 200th anniversary of its publication. However, I did write about the novel when we did it in 2015, so what to do? Well, the thing is that every time I read Austen something else pops into my mind to think about – and I'd love to share a couple of them.
Now, my group often does slow reads of the novels, and we are doing Northanger Abbey in two parts: up to Chapter 19, which is just before Catherine leaves Bath; and from Chapter 20 to the end which encompasses her arrival in and departure from Northanger Abbey. My comments in this post relate to the first part.
On heroes and heroines
Northanger Abbey, as you may know, spoofs or parodies Gothic novels, which were popular at the time. One of the clues to the parody is the frequency with which Austen refers to her heroine Catherine's likeness (or not) to "heroines". The novel commences:
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine…
And Austen goes on the describe why Catherine is not heroine material. She's a simple country girl living in an ordinary family in which nothing dramatic happens. Her father is a "very respectable man" who is "not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters". There are no lords or baronets in the vicinity to create hero intrigues … and so it goes.
However, it's not this Gothic spoof that I want to discuss, but the whole concept of hero/heroine. It occurred to me as I was thinking about the heroine thread during this read that when I was a student writing essays I always referred to the protagonists of novels as the "hero" or "heroine". I don't do this so much now, preferring something like "main character". I'm guessing this is part of our post-modern world.
But, this is not what I want to talk about either! My question to myself was where did this concept of "hero" and "heroine" come from, so I did a little digging. And here's my disclaimer, because it was just a little digging that I did. I discovered a couple of things. One is that the poet-playwright-critic Dryden was the first to use the word "hero" in this way in 1697. The site on which I found this went on to say that "it is still commonly accepted as a synonym for protagonist, even when the protagonist does nothing particularly heroic". Yes!
Britannica.com told me that:
The appearance of heroes in literature marks a revolution in thought that occurred when poets and their audiences turned their attention away from immortal gods to mortal men, who suffer pain and death, but in defiance of this live gallantly and fully, and create, through their own efforts, a moment's glory that survives in the memory of their descendants. They are the first human beings in literature …
This must be what Dryden was picking up on – a move from a focus on gods to people and their agency in their own lives. Another site (whose link I didn't capture) said that:
The Novel was a new genre. Contrary to the epic or the drama, the Novel places the hero at the heart of its reflections. For the first time, we have access to the thoughts and feelings of the hero.
I'd argue that Austen, in presenting Catherine to us as she does, is drawing our attention to a transition from the notion of "hero" (or "heroine") as someone who "live[s] gallantly and fully, and create[s], through their own efforts, a moment's glory that survives in the memory of their descendants", like a Gothic novel hero, to more realistic stories about ordinary human beings that she wrote. This is not to say that ordinary human beings can't be heroic, but it's a different sort of heroism, nest-ce pas? This is simplistic, I realise, in terms of analysing the "hero" in literature, but it's given me something to hang my thinking on to.
On "nice"
In a conversation with hero (!) Henry and his sister Eleanor, Catherine asks Henry "do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?"
Now, if you went to school when I did, you were probably told not to use the word "nice" because it's over-used and meaningless. Well, this is what Henry teases Catherine about. He replies (teasingly, cheekily, condescendingly, depending on your attitude to our hero), "The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding."
At this point sister Eleanor steps in and tells Catherine that
"He is forever finding fault with me, for some incorrectness of language, and now he is taking the same liberty with you. The word 'nicest,' as you used it, did not suit him; and you had better change it as soon as you can, or we shall be overpowered with Johnson and Blair all the rest of the way."
"I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"
"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word."
"While, in fact," cried his sister, "it ought only to be applied to you, without any commendation at all. You are more nice than wise…"
I loved reading that this injunction we all heard in the mid-late twentieth century was "a thing" back in the very early nineteenth. "Nice" has such a fascinating semantic history that I'm not going to explore here – but I can't resist telling Henry that he's wrong because my Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that, back around 1500, it originally meant "silly" or "stupid". Did Austen know that too, and is having a joke on Henry?
What fun Austen is to read …
Monday musings on Australian literature: Arnold Haskell on the arts (3)
This should be my last post on Mr Haskell's survey of the arts in Australia, and it focuses on Radio and the Movies. First though, in his section on literature, he talked about Australian readers and bookselling. He wrote that the average Australian "is a great reader; more books are bought per head of population in Australia and New Zealand than anywhere else in the English-speaking world". He admires Australian booksellers who can't quickly acquire the latest success. So, "they buy with courage and are true bookmen in a sense that is becoming rare in this [i.e. England] country."
I believe Australians are still among the top book-buying nations, per capita, but I couldn't find any supporting stats, so I may be making this up! However, I did love his commendation of the booksellers of the time, and his sense of their being "true bookmen" (as against their peers in England). He certainly wasn't one to look down on the colonials!
"an admirable institution"
He writes about the "admirable" ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission). He recognises that wireless has become a necessity "in a country of wide open space" because it is, for many, "the only form of contact with the world". He says the ABC "supplies much excellent music, and at the same time appeals to the man-in-the-street through its inspired cricket and racing reports". You all know how much I like the ABC.
BUT radio is a vice too, he says, when it is left on all day "in every small hotel, seldom properly tuned and dripping forth music like a leaky tap". He is mainly referring here to commercial broadcasting which he describes as "assaulting popular taste by their dreary programmes of gramophone records and blood-and-thunder serials … Unlike America, they cannot afford to sponsor worthwhile programmes". Hmm, my old friends at National Film and Sound Archive might disagree given Australia's large and by all accounts successful radio serial industry, though perhaps much of this occurred from the mid 1940s on – i.e. after Haskell did his research.
"isn't Ned Kelly worth Jesse James?"
Haskell has a bit to say about Australians' love of cinema, with "the consumption per head being greater than anywhere else". Film theatres are "the largest and most luxurious buildings" in Australian cities, but
the films shown are the usual Hollywood productions. There is as yet no public for French or unusual films.
Australian films are being made, he said, "in small quantities" but are "not yet good enough to compete in the open market." He is surprised that given Australia's "natural advantages", it had "produced so little in a medium that would encourage both trade and travel". He goes on to describe how much people knew about America through its films -"we have seen cowboys, Indians, army, navy, civil war and Abraham Lincoln". He suggests that Australia had just as interesting stories to tell and places to explore:
What of the Melbourne Cup, life on the stations, the kangaroos, the koala bear, the aboriginal, the romance of the Barrier Reef and the tropical splendour of the interior, the giant crocodiles of Queensland? What f the early history, as colourful as anything in America? isn't Ned Kelly worth Jesse James?"
He suggests that films could do more for Australia in a year than his book, and yet, he says it seems "easier and safer to import entertainment by the mile in tin cans and to export nothing"!
He makes some valid points but he doesn't recognise that Australia produced, arguably, the world's first feature film, back in 1906, The story of the Kelly Gang – yes, about Ned Kelly. It was successful in Britain, and pioneered a whole genre of bushranging films that were successful in Australian through the silent era. Three more Kelly films were made before Haskell visited Australia – but films were pretty ephemeral, and he clearly didn't know of them.
At the time he researched and wrote this book, 1938 to 1940, there was still an active film industry. Cinesound Productions produced many films under Ken G Hall from 1931 to 1940, and Charles Chauvel made several films from the 1930s to 1950s, but the war years were lean times, and it was in those early years that Haskell did his research. It's probably also true that then, as unfortunately still now, Australians were more likely to flock to overseas (that is, American, primarily) productions than their own.
Anyhow, I hope you've enjoyed this little historical survey of an outsider's view of Australia as much as I have – though I guess it's all rather irrelevant, and even self-indulgent, if you're not Australian! Apologies for that!
Kate Chopin, Fedora (Review)
Time methinks for another Library of America (LOA) Story of the Week, particularly since one of their recent offerings was one of my favourite American authors, Kate Chopin. "Fedora" is the sixth story by Chopin I've discussed here, and is probably the shortest, more of a "sketch". In fact its original title was apparently ""The Falling in Love of Fedora. A Sketch"
If you've read any of my previous posts, or her novel The awakening which I read a couple of times before blogging, you'll know that Chopin was not afraid to tackle confronting subjects, like suicide, adultery, and miscegenation. LOA's notes briefly discuss the controversy surrounding The awakening. Words such as "morbid," "sex fiction," "poison," were applied to it, and the clearly more conservative, younger, Willa Cather, whom I've also reviewed here, said that "I shall not attempt to say why Miss Chopin has devoted so exquisite and sensitive, well-governed a style to so trite and sordid a theme."
Well, of course, many of us do know why she explored the themes she did in puritanical late-nineteenth century America, and we admire her for doing so. LOA explains that while her stories were usually sought after, some were a little too hot to handle. "Fedora" was one such, being "turned down by the national magazines that often competed for her work", only appearing "in an upstart literary journal in her hometown of St. Louis".
So, what is it that was so shocking about "Fedora"? Well, there's the rub, because it's one of those short stories that leaves you wondering. Fedora is 30 years old – and is described pretty much as the quintessential spinster:
The young people—her brothers' and sisters' guests, who were constantly coming and going that summer—occupied her to a great extent, but failed to interest her. She concerned herself with their comforts—in the absence of her mother—looked after their health and well-being; contrived for their amusements, in which she never joined. And, as Fedora was tall and slim, and carried her head loftily, and wore eye-glasses and a severe expression, some of them—the silliest—felt as if she were a hundred years old. Young Malthers thought she was about forty.
The story concerns her going to the station – driving the horse and cart – to pick up young Malthers' sister who is returning from college. Young Malthers is, we are told, 23 – and Fedora has become fascinated by him, suddenly realising he is a man – "in voice, in attitude, in bearing, in every sense — a man". Now, early in the story, we'd been told that:
Fedora had too early in life formed an ideal and treasured it. By this ideal she had measured such male beings as had hitherto challenged her attention, and needless to say she had found them wanting.
But, suddenly she is aware of him, she watches him:
She sought him out; she selected him when occasion permitted. She wanted him by her, though his nearness troubled her. There was uneasiness, restlessness, expectation when he was not there within sight or sound. There was redoubled uneasiness when he was by—there was inward revolt, astonishment, rapture, self-contumely; a swift, fierce encounter betwixt thought and feeling.
Fedora could hardly explain to her own satisfaction why she wanted to go herself to the station for young Malthers' sister. She felt a desire to see the girl, to be near her; as unaccountable, when she tried to analyze it, as the impulse which drove her, and to which she often yielded, to touch his hat, hanging with others upon the hall pegs, when she passed it by.
It seems, then, that she is in love with him, as the original title encourages us to think – or that she, at least, feels a desire or passion for him. So, when she picks up Miss Malthers, why does she do what she does? That is the question – and it's one I'm not going to answer, because that would be a spoiler and because the story is so short that you can read it, and ponder it, yourself. And anyhow, I'm still thinking about it myself, given the way Chopin teases us. Suffice it to say that, however you read it, Chopin was challenging her readers to think about desire – its origins, its expression, and its impact on the person who desires.
This is a beautiful and intriguing little "sketch", though to call it that doesn't fully do it justice.
Note: My other Kate Chopin reviews are A pair of silk stockings, After the winter, A respectable woman, Désirée's baby and Morning walk. My, they are building up aren't they?
Kate Chopin
First published: Criterion, February 20, 1897
(Under the pseudonym, La Tour)
Available: Online at the Library of America
William Lane, The salamanders (Review)
William Lane's latest novel, The salamanders, is a book that keeps you thinking from beginning to end. As I started it, I was thinking of it as a cross between Julian Davies' Crow mellow (my review), a satirical novel about a house party for artists and their patrons, and Emily Bitto's The strays (my review) about an artist colony, focusing particularly on the founding family. A few comparisons could be drawn, but I soon discovered that this is its own book.
I hadn't heard of this* William Lane before, but The salamanders is his third novel. In a different version, with a different title, it was apparently shortlisted for the Vogel Prize. The book's author bio also told me that Lane did his doctorate on Christina Stead. So, he's been about the place – just not the places I've been haunting, clearly!
But now to the book. It starts during a beach holiday on the New South Wales coast. There's the obsessed artist Peregrine, his ex-wife Naomi, their daughter Julia, his sons, David, Arthur, and George, from his previous relationship – and the adopted Rosie. There are also some visitors, including friend Elizabeth and her husband Johnno. The children range in age down from the 14-year-old David. Arthur, aged around 11, has a crush on the slightly older Rosie, and George and Julia form a happy play unit. Lane sets up the idyll – Naomi says they are "enjoying one another's company far more than when we were married" – and then gradually pulls it apart, exposing past and present cracks. By the end of the first chapter – the book is told in 5 chapters – the idyll has broken, mostly due to Peregrine's arrogant and self-involved behaviour, and Naomi departs with the two girls. Chapter 2 jumps 15 years or so. Arthur is around 27 years old, and is back at the beach-house living alone. Rosie comes to visit.
The rest of the book focuses primarily on Arthur and Rosie as they circle each other, coming together, separating, all the while trying to come to terms with their lives, their pasts and their desires for the future. Lane doesn't over-explain, preferring to show not tell, so we are left to guess exactly what had happened on that holiday and just after, which resulted in changes to the family units. All we know is that the fallout has had long-lasting impact and that Rosie is coming from England, to which she'd run away. She refuses to eat with Arthur. This eating behaviour of hers is one of the motifs running through the novel, and represents an inner discordance, despite the refrain that what happened wasn't their fault.
Other motifs run through the book. One is the indigenous rock art image, in a cliff near the house, of a falling man. It mesmerises Arthur, and represents his emotional state. The other main motif relates of course to salamanders – and various members of the somewhat-related lizard and snake families. These creatures occur both literally and metaphorically. Rosie, in Chapter 2, says to Arthur:
'Skinks, salamanders, geckos, frill-necked lizards, water dragons,' laughed Rosie in her burred and husky way, 'this is the land of the lizard. When I see a lizard, I think of this country. I never realised that its surface is so lizard-like. That's what I saw from the plane.
This motif is complex, conveying a range of ideas, many of them unsettling:
… Peregrine glittered, and his eyes grew milky. He might be covered in scales, with discreetly expanding gills. With an absolute, self-preserving, inward rush of energy, Elizabeth removed herself from him.
Lizards also represent the antiquity of the continent – "the young lizard … considered them from some million years ago". And in this, they also represent resilience. "Lizards are tough", says Rosie, and toughness, the ability to grow and move beyond their youth, is what Rosie and Arthur are working to achieve.
There's an underlying Gothic sense to the novel which imbues it with an overall eeriness. Peregrine creates strange paintings in caves. There are mysterious shapes or shadows which appear out of the blue – "Something scurried outside the glass. He looked up, but did not catch its form" or "A liquid slithering passed along the glass of the house …" or "Then that scrabbling again. Something ancient was trying to get in". There's Arthur and Rosie's roadtrip into Australia's interior, and their uncertain relationship with each other. Not blood-related but brought up as brother and sister, they mystify and concern others.
So, where does all this go? I'm not sure it's a book you can easily comprehend in one reading. The road trip to the interior and Peregrine's bizarre painting projects in caves within caves suggest some sort of psyche-seeking but it isn't completely resolved in my mind. Need it be?
Overall, then, it's one of those mesmerising books that can be read in different ways, making it a little disconcerting. The first chapter felt a little over-written at times and I feared a clichéd story about dysfunctional artists' colonies, but it then shifted into something more mysterious, less-defined, slippery, something incorporating a broad, abstract story about our relationship to art, place and nature, and a more personal story about identity and family.
According to myth, salamanders are born of and resistant to fire. Rosie says during her road-trip with Arthur that "we're salamanders – we don't feel the fire". And that, in a way, is the point of the novel, surviving the fires that confront us.
William Lane
The salamanders
Melbourne: Transit Lounge, 2016
(Review copy courtesy Transit Lounge)
* I allude to the late nineteenth-early twentieth century Utopian of the same name, whose The workingman's paradise I've reviewed.
Monday musings on Australian literature: Memory of the World and Dorothea Mackellar
If not, let me start at the beginning … with UNESCO's Memory of the World programme. Established in 1992, it's the documentary heritage equivalent of the World Heritage Site programme which protects physical sites of natural and cultural significance. It's a significant programme, particularly for those of us who support libraries and archives.
Briefly, it's a multi-pronged programme aimed at saving and preserving the world's documentary heritage, but the most visible activity is its international register of "documents, manuscripts, oral traditions, audio-visual materials, library and archival holdings of universal value". You can find out more on the official website. To date, there are five "works" from Australia on the register. The first two added were the Mabo Case Documents and Captain Cook's Endeavour Journal.
However, there are, of course, more "documents" that countries like Australia would like to register. Some of these might eventually make it to the international list, but some might only ever be of national, not universal, interest. For both these types of documents we luckily have the Australian Memory of the World committee which manages an Australian register – in addition to proposing nominations to the international register. The current chair of the Australian committee is Ros Russell, whose novel Maria returns I've reviewed here and who was on one of last year's Canberra Writers Festival panels that I wrote up.
There are now 57 items on the Australian register, the last seven inscribed at a ceremony in Canberra last week. Knowing of my blog and interest in promoting Australian literature, Ros emailed me last week asking if I'd be interested in publicising one of these latest additions. Would I? Did she even need to ask? Of course I would … and so here goes …
Many of you – particularly my Australian readers – will have guessed from this post's title what this particular addition is, and they'd be right, Dorothea Mackellar's poem "Core of my heart (My country)". This poem starts:
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
But, the verse which most Australians know by heart is the second one:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
According to the notes accompanying the inscription, Mackellar, who was born in Australia in 1885, wrote the first draft sometime between 1904 and 1908 during a trip to England, and finalised it for publication in 1908. These notes conclude with this assessment:
Regarded by many as Australia's quintessential poet, Dorothea Mackellar's most iconic works offer powerful statements of fervent patriotism and connection to the land, captured as Australia was coming of age as a nation and on the brink of participation in global warfare. In the century since its creation, 'My Country' has had an almost immeasurable impact on the collective consciousness of Australians, especially within the sphere of literary culture and, for many, remains the ultimate expression of the centrality of the land to Australian identity. A wonderful poet of light and colour, commenting towards the end of her life, Mackellar made her own assessment of the significance of her poetry: 'I did say more or less what I wanted to say, and that's the satisfaction.'
Not only is this a worthwhile addition to the Australian list for the reasons given above but, as Ros pointed out, it's the first literary work on the Australian register and it's by a woman! Woo hoo! Not that I'm competitive or anything, but it is always encouraging to see a woman's achievement recognised.
Now, I did a little search of Trove – of course – and found an article on Dorothea Mackellar by critic Bertram Stevens whose Golden treasury of Australian verse I featured in a Monday Musings last year. The article, written in 1919, came from his series, Some Australian Writers. He says of "Core of my heart" that 'love of country has seldom been expressed more beautifully, or in language more simple and sincere' and he comments particularly on her love of and ability to describe colour. He writes that in her poems about the Australian landscape she 'helps many of us to realise the value of the gift of colour in Australia, which was so often considered sombre and melancholy — a "haggard continent,"* in fact.'
To conclude, I'll share some of Canberra writer Adrian Caesar's inscription ceremony address, which Ros sent me. He started by acknowledging the important work done by cultural institutions in 'collecting, preserving and exhibiting documents of historical, political and cultural significance'. He noted the 'repeated budgetary attacks' on these institutions and said
it is more imperative that ever to stridently insist upon the lasting relevance of the documentary record. It is unfortunate, too, that the incursions of post-modern relativism by tending to suggest that all history is fiction has played into the hands of those who seek to benefit from what we have heard recently referred to as 'alternative facts'. In the increasingly Orwellian world of political doublespeak, the preservation of documents to which empirical method might be applied, and from which 'facts' may be adduced, seems more vital than ever to our ability to understand our past and chart our future.
He then discussed the poem. He talked of the value of having access to original manuscripts, discussed the poem's cultural relevance and importance to Australian life, analysed its meaning including addressing the problematic issues of "patriotism and nationalism", and explained his preference for the original title "Core of my heart".
He concluded that the inscription of this poem's manuscript to the Register:
leads us both to a contemplation of the circumstances of its composition and to the power of its potential ongoing contribution. For surely in this its first completed form, it might lead us and students of the future to think about our relationship to land and landscape, and not only to use that to assert our independence from England, but also to seek an empathetic understanding of Aboriginal notions of country. Instead of 'us' and 'them', it seems to me that love of landscape, love of country as it is articulated in Mackellar's poem might provide a bridge towards healing rather than a chasm between colonisers and colonised.
Nicely done, eh? And thanks to Ros for the heads up.
NOTE: The original manuscript draft of the poem has been digitised and can be viewed online.
* Referencing, I presume, the poem "Written in Australia" by New Zealand-born Arthur H Adams.
Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman (eds), Rebellious daughters (Review)
To rebel or not to rebel, that is the question. At least, it's the question that interested memoirists Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman who, having written their own stories about "conservative upbringings and subsequent rebellions", wanted to discover what other women could reveal about that "universal life experience", the rebellion against parents. This book, Rebellious daughters, is, obviously, the end result – and it makes for fascinating reading.
In their Introduction, Katsonis and Kofman quote American author Gordon Lish's statement that the best thing writers can do is to get themselves "in trouble", to "make it hot" for themselves. This is what they wanted from their contributors, they wanted them to take risks – and it's what they got.
Like most anthologies, Rebellious daughters has been carefully ordered. It starts with one of the grand-dames of Australian literature, Marion Halligan ("The daughters of debate") who describes herself as "well-behaved", as the "good girl" that so many of the later contributors rebelled against. But this is not to say that she didn't engage in her own little subversions, such as reading forbidden books. They didn't do her any harm, she writes, "the delicate ones were my parents." I related to Halligan's story because, like her, I was the eldest, "the one who came before, who paved the way" and didn't rebel dramatically. But, enough of that, I'm talking order, structure, here.
The book ends with author-journalist Jane Caro ("Where mothers stop and daughters start") who shares her daughters' rebellions, the loud in-your-face one and the withdraw-and-don't-engage one. Her motherly perspective provides a satisfying, logical conclusion to the anthology. And then, right in the middle, the ninth story of seventeen, is author-publisher Rebecca Starford's "Who owns my story". Drawing on her own life and memoir, Starford grapples with the form, with the ethics and practice of memoir writing. I was intrigued by the placement of this contribution, but it's clever. Having read eight already, I was ready to think about the issues Starford posed, and then, as I read the final eight, I had them in mind.
So, what are the issues? Starford starts by quoting author JP Dunleavy, who said that "The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame". Starford likes this quote because
it reveals, simply and with a degree of sharp comedy, the risky nature of memoir writing.
She touches on several issues. One is the idea of shame, and whether it is "an emotion women memoirists suffer from more acutely than our male counterparts." She thinks it is, and wonders if this is due to girls being taught that they should never speak out. She also explores "a nagging moral quandary", that is, "the right" to tell stories that involve others. It is, she admits, "the biggest ethical question a memoirist faces" particularly when the memoir portrays these others "in an unflattering light". She discusses the option of writing the story as fiction. (But we all know cases where people "see" through that – or think they do – don't we!) Anyhow, she says that she couldn't choose the fiction option:
For me, the act of writing a memoir was important to the process. If I'd written my experiences as fiction, I would have been hiding behind the genre, and that would have been self-defeating, less courageous, and less honest.
This makes sense to me – and implies that many memoirs are a form of catharsis or, at least, of resolving one's past. This seems to be the case for Starford who concludes that her memoir has resulted in improved communications with her father. And, she says, while her memoir might have seemed like rebellion to him, for her it was about "seeking to understand him and my mother" and how her experiences as a child had shaped her.
Starford's analysis of the personal and ethical implications of writing memoirs provides a wonderful grounding for understanding of the other "stories". There's a lot of pain here, but there's also humour, occasionally laugh-out-loud, more often wry. Lee Kofman's story ("Me, mother and Sexpo") about taking her conservative Hassidic mother to the Sexpo exhibition is hilarious, but is also a lesson in the assumptions we make – particularly about our parents. Michelle Law's ("Joyride"), on the other hand, perfectly captures her pain of rebelling only to discover that she'd misread the feelings of the boy in question.
Not surprisingly many of the stories are about tension over boys and sex. Krissy Kneen ("Wundermärchen: A retelling of my grandmother"), whose Steeplechase I've reviewed, comes to realise in the end that instead of being the rebellious granddaughter she thought she was, she had taken on her grandmother's mantle, she'd become a storyteller who likes to shock the innocent. It's just that her grandmother used death, where she uses sex. In "Resisting the nipple", Rochelle Siemienowicz, whose memoir Fallen I've reviewed, tells of her struggle against the "good girl" expectations of her strict Seventh-day Adventist family and then of her complicated feelings, particularly regarding her mother, when becoming a mother herself.
In many of the stories, the youthful rebels are shocked to discover things aren't as they thought they were or would be. Jamila Rizvi ("The good girl") is confused when she realises that a girl (like her baby sister for example) could be not-good but liked. Jo Case ("Rebelling to conform"), in her desperation to be popular, starts to do poorly at school only to realise, later, that some of those popular girls she was trying to emulate got good grades. And Amra Pajalic ("Nervous breakdowns") is frustrated by her out-of-touch migrant mother's nervous breakdowns until she realises the cause is a mental illness.
Not all the rebellions in the book are against mothers – some are against fathers and grandmothers – and not all are resolved but, in most of the stories, age and experience eventually bring rapprochement. That doesn't mean of course that the daughters capitulate. Rather, they come to understand their mothers (or whomever) a little more and their mothers likewise learn to accept the daughter they have. As Susan Wyndham ("A man of one's own") concludes
life is a long lesson and from this distance I prefer to look back with tenderness on those riotous years … And for both of us I say, no regrets.
And that seems the perfect point on which to end my post on this engaging, sometimes shocking, but thoroughly generous and warm-hearted book.
Note: A percentage from the book's sales is going to the Women's Legal Service Victoria.
Maria Katsonis and Lee Kofman (eds)
Rebellious daughters: True stories from Australia's finest female writers
Edgecliff: Ventura Press, 2016
(Review copy courtesy Ventura Press)


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| EpiclyWeirdKitsune chapter 5 . 10/15/2013
You NEED to make a sequel draco at the dursley's would be overly funny to the point of indegestion
| lazy wimp chapter 5 . 7/29/2012
Oh, thank goodness. I'm so glad that Draco comes around!
I enjoyed this fic. I definitely would be up to reading a sequel :) Good luck with your writing!
| dansclavicle chapter 5 . 5/3/2012
Aww its lovely
| salviohexia chapter 5 . 4/4/2012
Aaawww! This was so cute! I loved it! Excellent job! 3
| Rori Potter chapter 5 . 2/18/2012
Interesting story.
| NightmareFalls chapter 5 . 1/17/2012
So there isn't going to be a continuation to this? ;( awwwwss
| Veneya chapter 5 . 10/25/2011
loved it..just the right amount of humour, romance and angst :D
how u've prtrayed draco's character was awesome too:D...keep up the gd work xd
| yunadustrial.twifan chapter 5 . 9/6/2011
this is really good.
| herRhi-chan chapter 3 . 7/22/2011
A flustered Potter was a delectable Potter
Fave. Line. EVVVVEERRRR~3
| herRhi-chan chapter 1 . 7/22/2011
I love Ron's way with words, haha
| Guest chapter 3 . 6/5/2011
Just one coment Harry is a half-blood not a mudblood only muggle born wizzards and witchs are mud bloods. Harry's parents are both magical.
| snowbabygurl chapter 5 . 12/6/2010
Just read this story and I really liked it. You should consider making a sequal to this with Draco at Harry's house and then back at school. Have conflict in there between the two somewhere back to making up and maybe slytherin's finding out and what not. You could take this to many different places.
| olupotter18 chapter 5 . 10/25/2010
awesome fic
| LunaticV chapter 5 . 8/29/2010
*giggles* lol, harry inviting draco to insult the dursleys? lol.. XPP
that was really good
| LunaticV chapter 1 . 8/29/2010
lol! i definitely love the idea of 'harry', 'draco', and 'potion floor' xPP
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