#Nowords is my favourite of these trending hashtags. Because unless what’s been rearranged is your letter-box, or your house, or your shopping centre, or your school, or your route to wherever, well, #SportRules! As we can see, sport - which in the real life pandemic throughout lockdowns when there was no sport, nonetheless managed to consume its usual 10 minutes of news broadcasts - maintains its pre-eminence in the minds of the good folks of Fraser. The dogs look at the camera with concern. Here’s No 3:Ī small boy babbles nonsensically at three spaniels as if they are his friends.
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Then there are descriptions of Trending videos, which are awesome in their authenticity. Yes, I have a feeling that the author has harvested some of these from my Twitter feed… Opinion: There are more of us than ever and none of us know what we’re doing.Football: League boss admits he doesn’t know all the rules.Report: Immortal Labrador puppy grown in Dutch lab.Fraser real-time smash round-up: watch live.It’s official: Instant global communication not helpful.Opinion: Klaus’s outburst costs Wrexham remaining goodwill.Report: Australian voters see voting like gambling, think it’s all just good fun.You can’t say ‘you’ without ‘I’, Dr Falcon.Tupperly takes flight, injuries many: watch live.Latest polling reveals swing to unknown party.So, how do the good folk of Fraser cope with the ad hoc rearrangement of their built environment? Let’s turn to social media to see what’s trending… Driving backwards and forwards in suburbs I didn’t know as floodwaters blocked my way, I began to panic about whether I would ever get home. I had to stop, adjust my mental map to bypass dips in the road and valleys that I’d never thought about before, and find another way. My daily commute was usually about 35 minutes, but five times on my usual route home I was stopped by flash flooding. The nearest I’ve come to this kind of disorientating experience was in one of Melbourne’s last major rainstorms. The internet becomes alight with conspiracy theories.Īs the world lurches around them, Alice’s secret will be revealed, and the ground at their feet will no longer be so firm. Tensions rise and the authorities have no answers. People wake up to streets that have rearranged themselves, in houses that have moved to different parts of town. Nothing is as it was, and while the sisters’ resentments flare, it seems that the city too is agitated. Meanwhile her son, George, is upstairs, still refusing to speak, and lost in a virtual world of his own design Lydia opens the door to a familiar stranger – thirty-nine, tall, bony, pale. It has been sixteen years, but it’s clear she is out of options. But was it the same city?Īlice stands outside her family’s 1950s red brick veneer, unsure if she should approach. He does this in a city recognisable as Melbourne but - in an echo of the unnecessary and disorientating renaming of Narrm by John Batman* -he has renamed the city as Fraser,
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What was it, I used to wonder, that made them not understand that certainty is no more possible in a pandemic than it is in a natural disaster or a war? Rhett Davis shows us that the planet itself rebels against mistreatment and denial of history, and that people have no choice but to learn to adjust and adapt. Hovering made me think of the plaintive refrains about wanting certainty during pandemic lockdowns. Winner of the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, Hovering is the most entertaining book I’ve read for a while, but it’s macabre and disorientating too.įun… because of the deadpan delivery of the absurdity of modern (non)communication but macabre and disorientating because it contests the complacent security of life in our cities.