University of Wollongong Research Online University of Wollongong Thesis Collection University of Wollongong Thesis Collections 1994 Widdershins and annotations Richard Lunn University of Wollongong Recommended Citation Lunn, Richard, Widdershins and annotations, Doctor of Creative Arts thesis, University of Wollongong. School of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong, 1994. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/962 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact Manager Repository Services:
[email protected]. WIDDERSHINS AND ANNOTATIONS A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree DOCTOR OF CREATIVE ARTS Please see print copy from for article UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG by RICHARD LUNN, B.A., DIP.ED. SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS 1994 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank my supervisor, Ron Pretty, for his perceptive and helpful suggestions concerning the various drafts of this thesis. I also wish to thank the University of Wollongong for its generosity in awarding me a postgraduate scholarship. WIDDERSHINS PART ONE: FLOTSAM 1 In which Tuccio di Piero Landucci encounters a monster The monster lay breathing beneath the walls of the town. It was huge and black, with a tail that could swat an armoured knight clean off his horse with the most casual of flicks. Topomagro's idlers were already jostling on the walls for a better view, though no-one had yet ventured from the parapet, through the Porta del Mare and onto the beach. The monster was far too monstrous, almost y thirty braccia in length, and looked capable, had the mood taken it, of swallowing the town's largest fishing boat at a gulp.