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The Weekend Australian submitted chapter three of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm (under a pseudonmyn and slightly altered title) to 12 Australian publishers and agents. 'Not one reader recognised its literary genius, and 10 wrote polite and vaguely encouraging rejection letters.'

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Literally in a Stew Imre Salusinszky , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 July 2006; (p. 40) In light of the rejection by most publishers' readers of a section of Patrick White's The Eye of the Storm (see 'Why Bother with Patrick White'), Salusinszky puts the case for a re-think on the teaching of Australian literature in schools and universities.
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