Comments on: The Wrong Kind of Green http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wrong-kind-of-gree/ Tansy Rayner Roberts Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Skaldi http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wrong-kind-of-gree/comment-page-1/#comment-262 Skaldi Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:59:08 +0000 http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/?p=737#comment-262 I've heard recently something along similar lines but the solution - apparently - is to consider the Australian landscape 'irrational' meaning it doesn't fit the classical (European) norms. It's about looking at Australia as it is and not as some idealised European pov and it's something that is often hard to see when we are constantly being bombarded with stuff from other cultures. Oh, about the gumboots: keep the feet of an pair of old tights stretched over the tops if you leave them outside. Stops unwanted pests from crawling in. I’ve heard recently something along similar lines but the solution – apparently – is to consider the Australian landscape ‘irrational’ meaning it doesn’t fit the classical (European) norms. It’s about looking at Australia as it is and not as some idealised European pov and it’s something that is often hard to see when we are constantly being bombarded with stuff from other cultures.

Oh, about the gumboots: keep the feet of an pair of old tights stretched over the tops if you leave them outside. Stops unwanted pests from crawling in.

]]> By: tansyrr http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wrong-kind-of-gree/comment-page-1/#comment-256 tansyrr Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:38:47 +0000 http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/?p=737#comment-256 Epibek - I'm glad you find the Tasmanian landscape comforting and safe (though um, always check your gumboots before you put them on). I always find it interesting how many people see it differently. I love the phrase "getting all Mackellar on us". I will use it in future. Epibek – I’m glad you find the Tasmanian landscape comforting and safe (though um, always check your gumboots before you put them on). I always find it interesting how many people see it differently.

I love the phrase “getting all Mackellar on us”. I will use it in future.

]]> By: Kaia http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wrong-kind-of-gree/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Kaia Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:39:51 +0000 http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/?p=737#comment-255 Writing a book about a place you've never been to is a very surreal experience. We do remember the Launceston (God, I have no idea how to spell that, I'm pretty sure I butchered it) converesation, don't we? Actually, I don't. Except that I made it rhyme with something crazy. Writing a book about a place you’ve never been to is a very surreal experience. We do remember the Launceston (God, I have no idea how to spell that, I’m pretty sure I butchered it) converesation, don’t we?

Actually, I don’t. Except that I made it rhyme with something crazy.

]]> By: Epibek http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/wrong-kind-of-gree/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Epibek Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:15:59 +0000 http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/?p=737#comment-254 oh tansy, this post made me a bit sad! i find the tasmanian landscape particularly comforting and safe, and i would have thought some places - like dixon's kingdom in the walls of jerusalem (it seriously looks like the old pencil pines are being tended by elves) - are made for stories. surely burnie is infinitely scarier than the lovely south-west wilderness? then again, it did cause flanagan, so perhaps that's not a good example. tim winton's very good at getting australianess across without getting all mackellar on us - even though western australia is very different, as you say, he sort of highlights the general through the particular. surely the way an author incorporates the australian landscape depends very much on how they personally feel about it? only problematic if it is so for you? oh tansy, this post made me a bit sad! i find the tasmanian landscape particularly comforting and safe, and i would have thought some places – like dixon’s kingdom in the walls of jerusalem (it seriously looks like the old pencil pines are being tended by elves) – are made for stories. surely burnie is infinitely scarier than the lovely south-west wilderness? then again, it did cause flanagan, so perhaps that’s not a good example. tim winton’s very good at getting australianess across without getting all mackellar on us – even though western australia is very different, as you say, he sort of highlights the general through the particular. surely the way an author incorporates the australian landscape depends very much on how they personally feel about it? only problematic if it is so for you?

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