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An anthology of ‘irresolute fancies’

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December 2010–January 2011, no. 327

The Best Australian Essays 2010 edited by Robert Drewe

Black Inc., $29.95, 400 pp

An anthology of ‘irresolute fancies’

by
December 2010–January 2011, no. 327

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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