Tag: Cirgars of the Pharaoh

• Tintin & Tess – a series of favourites, reflections and responses to Tintin by guest bloggers

  . One of my fondest memories is discovering Tintin for the first time in a very dark corner of an empty high school library in West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea. It wasn’t my school—I was seven or eight at the time. The library was empty because it was a Sunday, and it was…

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  July 6, 2013

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  Cirgars of the Pharaoh, PNG, reflection, Tess Grantham, Tintin, writing

• Tintin & Stuart – a series of favourites, reflections and responses to Tintin by guest bloggers

  In 1986, aged nine, for twenty-four consecutive Saturday mornings, I bowed before a revolving magazine rack in a corner of Hobart’s Angus & Robertson, mesmerised by the twenty-four Adventures of Tintin. The half-hour it took to read and twice re-read each book was an immunisation for the half-hour of pallid, ludicrous Anglicanism I endured the following…

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  October 24, 2012

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  Australian poet, Cirgars of the Pharaoh, reflection, Stuart Barnes, Tintin, writing