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'In the unpublished novel by the young Philip Lindsay, The Mangle...there is a fine scene when the character Ronnie Doebrook is leaving for England. He does not expect ever to return. As his liner pulls away from the Sydney dockside, Ronnie picks up one of the yellow paper streamers dangling over the rail, raises it to his lips, and pretends to send a gout of bile spurting over his receding friends and relatives. It is his parting comment on his birthplace. He is realizing his wish. Already he has become - what? An emigrant? An exile? Or an expatirate?' (Author's introduction 36)
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Epigraph:
Take my advice. Get out of this country. It's no good for any artist! - Nellie Melba to Ray Lindsay (ca 1929)
The expatriate is only half a man. Half his identity is lost. A man must work at his desk in his own country. - Norman Lindsay (ca. 1964)
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A Gout of Bile : Metic and Immigrant Expatriates
Subjects:
- The Mangle : A Novel 1927 single work novel
- Cunning Exiles : Studies of Modern Prose Writers 1974 selected work
- Exiles at Home : Australian Women Writers 1925-1945 1981 single work criticism biography
- Cockatoos : A Story of Youth and Exodists 1954 single work novel
- By Reef and Palm and The Ebbing of the Tide 1894 selected work short story
- A Warning to Wantons : A Fantastic Romance Setting Forth the Not Undeserved but Awful Fate Which Befell a Minx 1934 single work novel
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