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Australians were chuckling last week over a literary hoax as fantastic as a duckbilled platypus. Editor Max Harris, of Adelaide's long-haired little review, Angry Penguins, had introduced the work of a new poet named Ern Malley with a 30-page rhapsody explaining, with deadly and Dadaistic earnestness, why Malley was "one of the two giants of contemporary Australian poetry...
Then Australian Army Lieut. James MacAuley (who fought in New Guinea) and Corporal Harold Stewart revealed that they were "Ern Malley." Forced to kill an afternoon's leave, they created Poet Malley by leafing through The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and other inspirational works, and lifting whatever hit their fancy. Samples of Malley masterpieces...
...Lieut. MacAuley and Corporal Stewart were out to kill more than an afternoon. As Ern Malley they wrote: "For some years we have observed with distaste the gradual decay of meaning and craftsmanship in poetry. Harris and other Angry Penguins writers represent the Australian outcrop of a literary fashion prominent in England and America, a distinctive feature of which seemed to us to render its devotees insensible of its absurdity...
...Carpathian wall is to halt the Russians, it will likewise divide the south ern German front into two distinct sectors, just as the Pripet Marshes divide it farther north. In this case the Germans will have two new fronts to defend...
...ern and western limits of the teams...