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A story without end - Something Real
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Essays, poems, pieces to carry home when the day is done. A story without end. Written by Paul Bateman. I help you. You help me. We get to help each other. Such are the joys of travel. He young man in my local coffee shop spoke English with a German accent. So I asked him in German if he was German: Sind Sie Deutscher? He said he was. He said (in German) that his name was Jannis and that he came from a village near Dortmund. I asked what brought him to Melbourne: Was brachte Sie nach Melbourne? He was qu...
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Name the world - Something Real
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Essays, poems, pieces to carry home when the day is done. Written by Paul Bateman. Name the world. See what you find. See what finds you. Go out walking. At the end of my working day, I pull a coat around my shoulders, sink into my best, old boots and head for the local football ground. There I walk the boundary line, circling the oval’s green expanse as the evening sky grows dark. Sometimes, without warning and almost in mid-step, I come to a halt, glance up and find myself marooned on some part of the ...
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