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'I’ve been thinking about what humour is, and what it means for something to be ‘funny’. There are definitely different kinds of funny depending on where you live—I know this as a midwestern American now living in Australia. Love you, Oz, but I will never understand Kath & Kim. (I am, however, with you on Team The Office UK.) '
Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:
What You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematicians But Were Afraid to Ask: An Anthropology of Mathematicians in the Late Afternoon by Jennifer Woodworth
Galileo's Daughter By David Salner
At Altitude then no more light and Sit, Rest by David P. Miller
People in Deaf Houses and Science according to Amber by Paul Hostovsky
Both in Kansas and Not in Kansas by Aaron Sandberg
And if we are by James B. Nicola
Moa’s Advice To The Kākāpō By Mary Cresswell
State of the Universe by Flavian Mark Lupinetti
The Thing That Hits You in the Head by Morgan Driscoll
The Origin of Mass and Three Pounds of Matter by Nicole Cosme
Sense Perception and Ten Fun Facts about Silence by Valerie Sopher
What is the Normal Life of a Jellyfish? by Dave Malone
The Teetering Vase Contemplates Gravity by Catherine McGuire
Tip Diebæck’s Licentia Pearl By Marc Phillips
Contents
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Laughing and Crying : Absurdist Theatre, Science and Climate Crisis,
single work
essay
'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)
- Free Cheese and Crackers, single work essay
- An Uncertain Electricity, single work short story
- The Funny Formula, single work short story
- Carbon Copy Consumables, single work short story
- Adherence to the Committee Process, single work short story
- Customer Service, single work short story
- Repopulation, single work short story
- The Carbon Snakei"In grade 6, our science teacher did an experiment.", single work poetry
- Ann Hodges, 1954i"Sheesh,", single work poetry
- Being Sixtyi"There is a happiness to being sixty, and still in reasonable", single work poetry
- The Un-Selfi"Thinking of dander, strands of hair bound to brushes,", single work poetry
- Toy Peoplei"Scientists report they have", single work poetry
- Quantum Stringi"The cat who's finally learnt", single work poetry
- Lizard-Skini"Half-way up the sodden yard", single work poetry
- Ghosts of Ancient Underwater Cloudsi"Ghosts of ancient", single work poetry
- In Space Your Body Does Crazy Thingsi"Because of some metabolic anomaly", single work poetry
