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  • Henry George Holland by The Baliset Palimpsest on Nov 12, 2009 in Family

     “No more stories.We’re still using your imagination,it was stronger than ours.”Les Murray,The Last HellosTwenty years ago, exactly to the day, I sat next to a man on his bed. If my arm hadn’t been around his bony shoulders, he couldn’...



  • Ruminations - The Podcast of Nathan Zamprogo by The Baliset Palimpsest on Nov 12, 2009

    Hey there. I've been doing this blog thing for five years now. I've covered a lot of territory, and it's been fun. In the meantime, I've been fortunate to have heard some wonderful podcasters out there. I'd like to single out Patrick McLean's The Sea...



  • In Which Nathan Becomes Subversive by The Baliset Palimpsest on Oct 15, 2009 in Australian Politics University of Western Sydney

    Those of you picking up this blog post on Facebook - please note you should be heading over to my blog at http://baliset.blogspot.com for this and all my other writings, not here.When I was at Sydney University as a callow teen, ooh, 18 years ago, I...



  • The Cetaceous and the Celestial by The Baliset Palimpsest on Oct 6, 2009 in Science Numinous Religion

    Hate to do a "best of" to you today, but I thought I'dbring you a post I made on my other blog (sadly neglected of late)a while ago, because it says a number of things thatare important to me, and I liked my turn of phrase in it.I once holidayed on M...



  • A personal interlude by The Baliset Palimpsest on Sep 1, 2009 in University Personal

    I worked for a long time at a private School. I was always flattered when colleagues said, “you ought to teach”, but I was happily in a groove where the technology I managed was an end unto itself. I was happy to pour myself into work where the s...



  • Ai! Ai! Cthulhu F'taghn!! by The Baliset Palimpsest on Jul 27, 2009

    “It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers...”*This explains a lot. 6YO son is back at School tomorrow. Not a moment too soon.* With thanks to H.P Lovecraft and Defectiv...