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...When Australian cricket legend Donald Bradman fell ill with peritonitis in London in September 1934, King George V was not amused. "I want to know everything," he reportedly said upon hearing the news. It was a measure of the esteem in which Bradman was held, even by his nemeses the English...
...conflict with much of the reportage that follows. Consider some of the places Theroux visits, and people he meets. In Bangalore, India, he comes across two guys, Vidiadhar and Vincent, who had managed one of the earliest call centers, among other things processing mortgages for an Australian finance company. Theroux sets up this section by noting that "in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Indian labour had been exploited for its cheapness. Coolie labour was the basis of the British Raj ... Again I recognized the paradox, that India's poor were its wealth...
...Prize (and a strong candidate for the shortlist to be announced on Sept. 9), The Lost Dog tells the stories of two people, Tom Loxley and Nelly Zhang. Tom, a divorced Anglo-Indian literary scholar who lives in Melbourne, has lost his dog in the vast wilderness of the Australian bush. He is there staying in the holiday home of his friend, Nelly, while he finishes a book on Henry James and the uncanny. Nelly, an artist who lives and works in a disused Victorian textile mill called the Preserve, located in a postindustrial part of the city, fashions elusive...
...everyone is convinced. "We have concerns about how individuals would react in an emergency," says Lawrie Cox, industrial manager at the Australian Federation of Air Pilots. "It's easy to do in a simulator, but when you are confronted with it, it's an entirely different situation. You don't have a depth of feeling." Simulator training, he says, "is a short-cut process because of the world-wide shortage of pilots ... and the view we have is you can't beat experience...
...Adore the Snore I enjoyed your piece "The Snore Wars" [Sept. 1]. I would like to share a remarkable discovery I made while traveling the country for several months a year selling Australian Stock Saddles and sharing hotel rooms with a male colleague with a snore like an outboard motor. You cannot win a snore war by fighting the noise. But you can win by embracing the sound. Simply set your breathing rhythm to the rhythm of the snore, and the sound becomes a sleep aid. Now I like it when my colleague goes to sleep first because I fall...