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AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Chronology

  AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Chronology 1    Discovery of the drug     2    Development of Deep cover 9     3    Diplomatic earthquake     4    Global and national recoil     5    Weapon of paranoia      6    Cardwell’s descent into paranoia     7    Enter the DC9     8    Spectacular recovery      9    Assassinations of the DC9      10    Crocodile researcher     11    Community meeting     12    Earthquake     13    Something in the water     14    Fifteen minutes of fame     15    Another fifteen minutes of fame     16    The boy the piper left behind     17    Many a true word     18    Moment of truth and choice     19    A community is affirmed     20    Outreach of the New Cardwell      21    Rumours and anger nationwide      22    Investigative journalism bites      23    Royal commission     24    Attempted coup      25    Resolution from Cardwell      26    The New Military      27    The New Government     28    The New Constitution     29    Outreach of the New Australia     30  

AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Synopsis

AN AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEY Synopsis VOLUME 1 The Pivotal Event CROCODILE DANCING Ros, a field researcher, is astonished by the conclusion to which her work on crocodiles has led her. She responds in the spirit of the extraordinary affective life that has recently blossomed in her community - she writes a short drama that expresses an extrapolation from her research findings. She then concludes a review of her research journal with a conspicuously unscientific affirmation: The Ancestor has re-emerged to recreate the face of the Earth. At a workshop with Jason Arthur, a guest author in town at about the same time that night, Ariel, another member of the community blurts out the same words. All present are drawn into an interpretive effort. They conclude that Arial’s words either predict an earthquake or reveal a relationship crisis. Meanwhile, Alan, an unpopular resident is enticed by a pair of trixters into believing he is a magician. Appalled by their success they attempt to turn the situat

AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Abstract

AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Abstract In one sentence A small town is transformed into a community by an amazing event, and becomes a catalyst  for the end of civilisation as we know it, and the renewal of the face of the earth. In a slightly longer sentence The residents of a small town are gradually transformed into a community by an amazing event, the nature of which unfolds as they deepen their commitment to a new way of life, and become instrumental on the one hand in unmasking and immobilising civilised institutions that have attempted to impose uniformity on people everywhere, and on the other, in precipitating local community on a global scale, facilitating the fullest identification of its inhabitants with the landscape. Part 1 CROCODILE DANCING The residents of a small town (after a brief and, at the time, inexplicable experience of horror) explore and celebrate with ever increasing wonder, the shared insight that has penetrated their lives, plunging themselves with insatiable curiosi