Posts by Hilary Stace
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The Electricorp art is long gone. There did used to be some wonderful NZ art on the 12th floor in the early days of Rutherford House becoming part of the university but that seems to have gone now. But there is one of my favourite of all time artworks in the foyer downstairs - that huge McCahon I AM which was bought by someone prescient at the university - probably quite cheaply - in the early 1970s. Also some other photographs etc from Victoria's art collection.
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Is that what's happening on the ground floor of Rutherford House at the moment? It's overrun by men in suits. I'm about to run a seminar on research on Grandparenting in NZ Today but a group has taken over my lecture theatre. Will just go and kick them out.
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Sorry, I was referring to the bickering on PAS as a symptom of the divisions caused by Richard Gage's visit to NZ generally. Not implying the hate mail came from within this community.Thanks for the Guidelines, Russell.
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Restorative justice requires an independent facilitator. Are there any Judges with some spare time out there?
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But is it worth such destruction of relationships here?
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I think it is incredibly sad that this whole fallout is because someone came to New Zealand with a theory about something that happened on the other side of the world several years ago. Nice people have received hate mail, the reputations of public institutions are questioned, and former friends no longer talk. Is it really worth it?
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FYI. Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan from 1930.
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A dugong in Dunedin would indeed be memorable. (However, I am slowly morphing into my gravatar - is this happening to anyone else?)
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Ben, thanks, I can relate to a lot of that thinking. Would like to meet you some time and chat about eczema and epistemology.
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I'm eager to hear examples -- mostly novels, because it seems to me that poetry makes different rules for itself, and that they work just fine -- of contemporary literature that cites or incorporates other material, and does it well and productively.
I'm a fan of how Kate Grenville has incorporated real people and historical documentation in The Lieutenant and The Secret River (both set in early European New South Wales). Her account of discovering the story and material behind The Secret River, which became a book in its own right, is also riveting.
Fiona Kidman's A Captive Wife (about Betty Guard) and Annemarie Jagose's Slow Water (the doomed career of a gay missionary) are also based on real people and events and have relied heavily on letters and diaries. I particularly liked Slow Water as it features my ancestor in a bit part, and I recognised much of the historic material (but don't recall how it was attributed). Going back further Elsie Locke's The Runaway Settlers is based on early Canterbury families.
I can't put my hands on any of these books so can't check how they credited their sources, but they are all successful examples of historical fact based fiction.