AustLit

Author's note: In a second - hand bookshop I found a box of how-to pocket manuals that were published in the 1960 s. The titles ranged from instructions for exhibiting flowers to financial planning to ' How to be an effective public speaker'. They begged transformation into art but remained too much what they were as objects. Instead, I chose a random sentence or two from a few of them. This is a small selection of that initial selection.