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Anthology

An anthology of ‘irresolute fancies’

The Best Australian Essays 2010 edited by Robert Drewe

by Geordie Williamson
December 2010–January 2011, no. 327

The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe

Black Inc., $29.95, 400 pp

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Michel de Montaigne thought little of constancy. It was change in slow motion, he said – ‘a more languishing movement’. The first and still the most miraculous exponent of the essay form instead bragged about his embrace of all that fluctuates: ‘I do not portray being; I portray passing; not a passage of one age to another ... but from day to day, from minute to minute.’

 


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The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe

Black Inc., $29.95, 400 pp

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