Mel Shorter

Embracing new adventures on the land of the Tyerrernotepanner, Panninher & Leterremairrener people

[Mel Shorter @melshorter]

‘No-one in a hospital is fully awake and in the world. Hospitals have their own gravitational field, their own atmosphere; you can feel it from the car parks.’ https://t.co/xHdeAJpExo

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‘ ... when she came to the highest notes it seemed that all they had been given in their lives and all they had lost came together and made a weight that was almost impossible to bear.’ https://t.co/HMreDX4lOT

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@Chat10Looks3 @leighsales @leighsales I was exactly the same about Schitt’s Creek but now I’m absolutely loving it. Gets stronger in season 2 and season 3 onwards is 👍❤️🥰

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‘I have no sense of past in an episode or any ability to imagine a future where I am not this way; I am caught in a disintegrating present.’ https://t.co/oqH5vsxlJh

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‘The Scottish sky is better at obscenity than any human voice.’ https://t.co/4caiOtAdQ1

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‘White people, the type who never used to have anything to say to black people except “We have no vacancies,” “You missed a spot,” and “Rebound the basketball,” finally have something to say to us.’ https://t.co/NeKWEXdb11

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@PogonophileMelb @aliceleung The 2nd edition of the Handbook of Writing Research, published by Guilford Press in 2016, contains several articles that highlight the complementary relationship between reading and writing, and how one enhances the other (& vice versa)

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‘“Listen, to be a human cannonball, you don’t need to be flexible or fast or strong, just lonely and miserable as hell.”’ https://t.co/60KaJfRozI

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‘Babe, you’re not gonna find good sex tips in the search bar/ it’s a colonised capitalist space’ https://t.co/6GKjy7fqhc

[Mel Shorter @melshorter]

‘I’d missed my home, the habits I have that shape it and are shaped by it, the small delights it gives me across the day. I felt collected, grounded.’ https://t.co/hRhLo8nbzs

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@r_nd_rgh Lots of teaching jobs here in lutruwita and housing prices (outside of Hobart) are pretty good 😊

[Mel Shorter @melshorter]

‘Your people have finally fallen into history, he said. The rest of us are already here.’ https://t.co/TdKp8czCrJ

[Mel Shorter @melshorter]

‘I saw maybe one hundred birds hopping around in this enormous temporary nest, sharing a song I never would’ve heard and been struck dumb with glee by had I had my shit more together.’ https://t.co/8Rs7W8Tf17

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‘Flash, eclipse, flash, eclipse. If we only see the light we are blinded; only the dark and we will never find our way.’ https://t.co/gDcndyIWD0

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‘Nothing was simpler than wanton destruction. Nothing more fragile than earliest memory.’ https://t.co/aWqNtKwwTX

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‘I complained that “girls are too messy,” but it was a lie. The messiness was what I craved. I wanted to tell someone everything I knew. I wanted to name names and tell the whole story.’ https://t.co/O9fCQ4ZBRl

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‘Yes, exile was as old as mankind. But the Russians were the first people to master the notion of sending a man into exile at home.’ https://t.co/gbB8IyParN

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@NayukaGorrie @MsFriedmann @wheelercentre Thank you for pointing me towards this. It is so good and I never would have seen it otherwise.

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@kelittlejohn Oh wonderful! A belated happy birthday to you Kate. My 46th bday was the day before yours and my best friend also sent me flowers - from the far off land of NSW 🥰 💐 (the friend is there; the flowers were from 3kms away 😆)

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‘... I longed to be once more in Jamaica ... For only there could I be sure that someone looking on my face for the first time would regard it without reaction. No gapes, no gawps, no cussing, no looking quickly… https://t.co/wq8S11vsJV