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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 The Enduring Prose and Poetry of Clive James
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'Arnold Schwarzenegger’s pumped body was like “a brown condom full of walnuts”. Damon Hill’s Formula 1 car was “a modern sculpture propelled by burning money”. Television was “the haunted fish tank”, a sense of humour was merely “common sense, dancing” and a luxury liner was nothing but “a bad play surrounded by water”. Sydney’s Opera House looked like “a portable typewriter full of oyster shells”' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 65 no. 1/2 January / February 2021 21373447 2021 periodical issue 2021 pg. 13-20
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