Notes
- Seamus Heaney, A sofa in the forties’ in The Spirit Level, London: Faber & Faber, 1996, pp. 7–9.
- I owe this quotation and several others in this essay to my friend and colleague, Dr Gail Jones.
- Paul Ricoeur, Oneself As Another, London: Chicago University Press, 1994, p.l.
- Also from Gail Jones.
- ibid.
- My translation; the Spanish literally means ‘disturbances amongst the madmen’.
- Ricoeur, Oneself As Another, p.11.
- Jean Baudrillard, Revenge of the Crystal: Selected Writings on the Modern Object and its Destiny 1968–1983, Sydney: Pluto Press, 1990, p.63.
- Ricoeur, Oneself As Another, p.13.
- W.B. Yeats, ‘The second coming’ in Collected Poems, London: Macmillan, 1957, p.211.
- Judith Wright, Collected Poems; 1942–1985, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1994, p.349.
- Ricoeur, Oneself As Another, p.13.
- ibid, p.61.
- ibid, p.13.
- ibid, p.21.
- ibid.
- Heaney, ‘The first words’, in The Spirit Level, p.38.