02-09-2012, 05:03 PM
Although colloquial, I've run across it a few times before, as it seems endemic to any country where the British Empire shipped oars. I think you might have a harder time slipping "Shela" by, but I guess that has always been the case! I do think you need to include the name of the desert " Strzelecki". I mean, comeon, you can't leave that out. I know it is probably Heresy to inquire, but have you ever thought of retelling the story, with your pithy commentary, and symbolic images mixed in? That way no one would have recourse to fain ignorance of the events of the ill-fated, ill-advised, and just plain ill, or one could say of "Grey" health (they should have gotten the recipe for making those greens into the paste, instead of shooting at the cooks), adventures of the doomed Burke and Wills. I find the contrast between the difficulty they had in getting around, to the ease that Howitt had as he went about his searches and such quite interesting. I also find it wonderfully ironic that Howitt first killed 12 aborigines, and then present them with some kind of ceremonial breastplate for their humanity in helping Wills and Burke, well at least until Burke ran them off by firing his gun at them. Obviously another example of the man's genius for tactics, not to mention logistics. In some ways this reminds me of the Mexican celebration of cinco de Maya. It commentates the event of holding back the French forces for one day before being completely overrun. Oh well, I guess one takes one's victories where he can find them.
Dale
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.