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Written 16 December, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today, 3 locally transmitted cases in NSW! One a driver who transports air line staff- were they wearing masks?- it turns out rules for airline staff aren’t as strict here as for ordinary OS travellers- plus 2 older people in the Northern beaches. We depend on contact tracers to see if there’s a circuitous link. I hope so. Otherwise it’s silently spreading in the community. They’re doing a big push in the Northern beaches area to have people tested, so there’ll be more information to go on. This virus is so infectious, in one medical conference in Boston with an asymptomatic spreader, \u00a0330,000 people were infected. We’re now worried Victoria might slam shut its borders, and more likely, \u00a0WA- and GG’s sister, all on her own in Perth, a cancer survivor, won’t be with us for Christmas.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading the new manuscript of my friend Shelley in NY, locked down, only opening the door to grocery deliveries, only going out between 5 and 5 in the morning, down the lift to walk in Central Park. And it is so spectacular that when she said she was unable to write a synopsis of it to send to agents, I got worried the world wouldn’t see it- so I took it upon myself to write it for her, to do my bit for literature:<\/p>\n

In an epic tale worthy of an ancient Greek myth, B takes us on a wild, riveting adventure into the 19<\/i>th<\/sup>psyche of surely the greatest\u00a0 tragic heroine since Madame Bovary, a beautiful young consumptive, the child-wife of Edgar Allen Poe, as her sexuality, maddened by\u00a0laudanum, demands release\u00a0 from a loving\u00a0but unconsummated marriage and into the persona of \u00a0cigarette-girl, identical in looks to her, but her sexual opposite, an enticing, successful \u00a0prostitute. B, unlike Flaubert, makes no judgements against her heroine \u00a0as she explores, in lyrical, beautiful prose, universal themes of what seems and what is, love, friendship, violence, human kindness, narcissism, and a woman\u2019s secret inner life.<\/i><\/p>\n

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You must read it! I’ll tell you when it’s out.<\/p>\n

Dee and Tripi left today, on work to illuminate a statue way up north. Following a convention he began by bringing around a home-made chocolate cake last time he left, I cooked crepes with Charmaine Solomon’s recipe, (from her Complete<\/em> Vegetarian Cookbook<\/em>, my lifeline) instead of our usual healthy pancakes made of buckwheat flour and tahini (thanks, Kim): 2 eggs, half a cup of milk, \u00a0half of water and half of flour, a pinch of salt, half a teaspoon of sugar (to make them brown). Delicious. A very English flavour, like cucumber sandwiches.<\/p>\n

We’ve had thunderstorms for two days, but Dee had a plane to catch, so he and Tripi tried to dodge between them.<\/p>\n

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He messaged later to say he hadn’t dodged the next storm. he had to pull to shore, to shelter in an oyster lease.<\/p>\n

A long phone therapy with my long-term magic therapist. My new manuscript has zotted me back to my 14 year old self, living alone with my beautiful but violent mother, believing it would never end, believing her abuse of me as a slut and a cretin was true, too timid to run away because there was no one to go to, nowhere to go, and besides, I’d promised to look after her. At least i hid in dozens of books a week. I’d never go out without one on the go, and two in a bag- for hiding. Those terrible years made me a writer.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, after sending off my own manuscript, I’m unable to create. Exhausted. needing to hide in the world. Here, you can hide in the world. So I hacked back undergrowth, and began to paint the deck chairs and table. Undercoat white, because a friend years ago painted them a depressing black. They’ll have to become another colour. Soon. I’m a sloppy painter, so i’m going to have to gurney the deck afterwards. Like my life, a work in progress.<\/p>\n

And today’s pic of the goanna, mid-stride:<\/p>\n

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Byron Bay eaten by the ocean (see comment below)<\/p>\n

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