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The symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil

ursday afternoon I belatedly fulfilled a promise to post a book to Wilcannia. The school day was just finishing and as I left the Post Office I overheard a child around eight years old: Dad, I was so good today I got FIVE stickers.

All this was torn asunder, in what is by now his distant past, by the casting of lots which showed (not unlike the joust by which I vaguely recall Lancelot’s guilt vis a vi s Guinevere being exposed) poor Silas to be ‘guilty’ of theft. This might explain the relentlessness with which very rich people pursue money, accumulating it with no end in sight and/or finding the most ludicrous things on which to spend it – each guinea breeding the desire for more. Ranting about special entry for First Nations students, it was clear (at least from my colleague’s description) that her son was absolutely persuaded that his friend deserved this place in the medical program, more than anyone from another class or race-based background.

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