This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

This project was assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.

First published in 2014

Copyright © Kate Gordon 2014

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‘The Good Morrow’ by John Donne on page 4 first published in his collection Songs and Sonnets, 1633
HG Wells quote on page 156 is from The Fate of Man: An Unemotional Statement of the Things That Are Happening to Him Now, and of the Immediate Possibilities Confronting Him, 1939

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