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Issue Details: First known date: 1981... vol. 40 no. 2 Winter 1981 of Meanjin est. 1940 Meanjin
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1981 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Cabbyi"Only at certain times of the year", Silvana Gardner , single work poetry (p. 223)
Summer Storm at Robei"After the long heat", Anne Odgers , single work poetry (p. 224)
Evolutionary Myth in the New Nature Poetry, Mark O'Connor , single work criticism (p. 225-233)
The Lepers, Andrew Lansdown , single work short story

The narrator and his wife, shop owners in the ancient times of the Middle East awaiting the Medes' invasion, realise that a group of lepers have entered their store to buy food. The lepers try to plead for mercy, saying that the Stewards have stopped leaving food outside the city; but the narrator's wife is enraged and calls down the guards. The people of the city gather to stone the lepers to death, and the narrator takes part. He tries to rationalise it by saying they only followed the law, but that night, he wakes up crying out for mercy.

 (p. 234-240)
Woman and Myth in Thomas Keneally's Fiction, Frances McInherny , single work criticism (p. 248-258)
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