Key Centre will be
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Although its name may have changed, the Main Library's bag room will condnue to act as an aaademic storehouse. Registered by Auatralia Poet publication No. V8C3C¥~35 But instead of providill8 temporary Said Professor Spearrin: "At the mo 40811 accommodation for students' books, the ment there i. no single volume reference bq room's new tenant, tbe National book on Australian museums and an Centre for Research and Dcvdopment galleries. history ofAustralia titled .411$1r1llians: .4 libraries and individual researc:bers can in Australian Studies. wiD become a Hisloril:tll Library. His other publi no longer afford to buy multi-volume permanent nationwide repository of Database cations include SydMY su- 1M no- biographical dic:tionaries. Professor information on our way of life. lies and Th~ Sydney Htuboll' Bridge: A Spearritt said. Accordina to its director, Professor "One of our projects will be the Lif~. The centre is also prepariq Moni Peter Spearrin (below) tbe centre will Cultural Ac:tivities Database whic:h will loring Sydn~y, a city perfCll1lUlllCe by contain comprehensive data on produce databases on Australian Biography Monash geographers Dr Kevin O'Con berilaae, cultural activities, and teachina mu~ms and galleries, from visitor pr0 nor and Dr Chris Maher, and TM Sla/~ in Australian studies, as well as biOS files to tbe nature of the collections of .411$1",IIa, a nationwide IIIIIIIJDIry or themselves. In 1991 Carnbridae Univenity Press tbe soc:io-ecolKHlli<: dimension of Aus raphies and analyses of tbe state of tbe win publish one of tbe centre's major "A spin-off will be a major reference tralia in !be \ale 1980&. nation. undertaki..... the Dlcllollllry of .4,... book which miaht have a paperback edi As part of its teac:hina tbe IrIlllan Biograplry, a one-volume work proararn "The aim of the centre is to improve tion for the tourist market." centre win co-ordiDate !be recendy witb an emphasis on lOtb century Aus teachina and research resources in Aus established Graduate Diploma or Aus IraIian studies," Professor Spearrin The Heritage Tourism Database will tralians suc:h as Andrew Peacock. Hden also provide pertinent infonnalion. this tralian Tourism and tbe MA in said. Garner. Glenn Wheatley and Professor Australian Studles_ time ror tourists. David Kemp. One of ., Key Centres in Teachina "Tbere is no centralised luide in A public launch for !be National Cen and Research established in universities Australia tei heritage items. wbether ~ of !be main reasons behind !be tre for Research and Dcvdopmcnt in 1988. publication i. that teachers. school and colleaes in the centre will be buildings, sites or museums.It Professor Ausualian Studies will be held in July. supponed for up to six years by the Spearrin said. Federal Government. subject to a satis "Our major clientele would be the factory review after three years. tourism industry itself. The co-ordinator of the successful "We have been approec:hed by a Monash submission. Professor John number of commercial publishen in Hay. then Dean of Ans. said at the time terested in a sJove-bo. edition whic:b it would play an imponant role in future would list important buildinls, developments in both secondary and ter mu~ms. an galleries and national tiary education, where Australian parks. studies was an imponanl area of "At present tbe tourist would need development. four books. which would require a "When Mr Dawkins praised Monash rather large glove box." for gening the key centre. he noted the Professor Spearrin, a former ass0- very large number of universities that ciate professor of politics at Mac:quarie IIad nominated Australian studies as University. is well-qualified to oversee their first priority." Professor Hay said. such projects. "In fact it was the most sought-after Until recently he was an adviser on designated key centre in the entire historical and heritage aspects of exercise. " museum collections and displays in New Apan from its teaching programs, South Wales. most notably that or one of the centre's main roles will be to Sydney's new Powerhouse Museum. filltbe gaps in Australia's cultural infor He is the general editor of five mation. reference volumes of the II-volume
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• Tony T/embath's PeS881188 MIl MWIa: Some AIpecIs of an of the works on dl8play In ~urope ancl8ack: Au.raDan Artl...• lnatallatltlll. at the Monaah Unlverslly Gallery untU 10 June. The exhibition aJeo Includes works by John Lethbridge and Robert Owen. Gallery hours are lOam to 5pm. TueadaYSIO FrIdays. and 1pm 10 5pm Saturdays. Photo - Richard Crompton. )
• Among the winners at a recent prize-giving ceremony in Malerials Engineering were (from left. lOP • Ms Kathy Fisher (left) receives the Philips prize for proficiency in electronics from row) Scott Story (BTR Nytex Prize. top third-year student). CamMon Dellar (BTR Ny1ex Prize. top company representative, Ms Anne Barber. Ms Fisher also became the first woman to win second-year vacation employment report). (bonom row). Philip Crosbie (National ConS Left: John Young (centre), winner of the J.w. Dodds Memorial Medal for the top student in Mechanical Engineer ing, talks with (from left) the Dean of Engineering, Professor Peter Darvall; the chairman of Mechanical Engineer ing, Professor Bill Melbourne; his mother, Mrs Joan Young; and a repre sentative of the sponsoring company, Clyde-Riley, Dodds Ply Ltd, Mr Ray Austin. • Below: The BH P Prize for the top second-year student in Materials Engineering was won by Bruce Craw ford (right). He Is pictured receiving his award from Dr A. GIUlns of BHP Me~ bourne Research Laboratories. Look ing on is Professor R. W. Cahn of Cam bridge University. • Below left: Michael Hesse (right) is congratulated by Associate Professor Ed Cherry of Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering for winning the Australian Institute of Radio and Elec tronic Engineers award lor 1988. Mr Hesse also won the Jack Wilson Prize for a project in a topic to do with elec tric power. Photos - Julie Fraser, John Millar • Left: Lim Hock Gin (right) receives the Digital Equipment award for the best project in digital electronics or computer engineering from company representative Mr John Baker. Mr Lim also won the Reuben Medding prize for control engineering, and an award from the English Institute of Electronic Engineers. MONASH REPORTER Page 2 MAY 1989 'Spirit of goodwill' in Chisholm agreement TIle ...... of die H,.. 01 Apft have Ihe responsibilily 10 get il righl." work lay ahead for Ihe Merger inslilulion Ihal would be a pace-setler _I belw_ Moasil aDd CIIisIIoIm The Dir«lor of Chisholm. Dr Geoff Implemenlalion Commill". bOlh for Ihe fUlure of higher education in ..... a. lIIoIork « ...... sUI lile PftsI· Vaughan. warned lhal although hard Monash and Chisholm could creale an Auslralia. _ of ~oI. c...... Mr P••I -.Mr Ramler (pictured. righl. wilh Ihe Vice·Chancelior. Professor logan) was speaking al Ihe formal signing of Ihe .gr..menl which will lead 10 Ihe eslablishmeDI of one of Ihe bissesl and mosl diverse universilies in Australia. "Today marks Ihe 40th anniversary of Ihe awarding of Ihe firsl diplomas from Ihe Caulfield Inslilule of Technology, as we wcre known:' he said. Mr Ramler said Ihe drive and energy of bolh groups had led 10 Ihe quick preparation of the agr«ment. Imponanlly, he added, il was an association that had not been dreamt up by governments. Professor Logan said Ihe agreemeDl had come about in a spir: .: of goodwill and deep commilmenl . .. It will create an insthulion that will improve the delivery of educalion31 ser vices to people. young and old," he said. "This will be one of the most impor lanl amalgamalions in Australia. and we Heard the one about the Buddhist priests? Wbal do Thai viliagen and Buddhisl priests have I_ common ..lIh With Ihe addilion of midwives, Ihis besI way of preventina lhat from Ba_akok laxi driven and mllSS8ge parlor girls? could be exlened 10 perhaps 10 per ceol happening. of lhe villages. He pve !he example of Thailand's by Dr Mochai Vinvaidya, left, who All have played a pari in one of Ihe In fact. lhe mainslay of Dr Vira· oondom-blowing competilions. Ihe ob· world's most successful and pragmatic rec:enlly was awarded an bonorary Doc· vaidya's program became village women jed of which is 10 blow a condom up 10 family planning programs spearheaded lor of Medicine by lhe universilY. who were uained in and practised family Ihe largest size possible withoul il AI " seminar joinlly sponsored by Ihe planning lhemselves. bursting. Cenlre for Reproduclive BiololY and II was they who became lhe source of "There is even. a national champion the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, informalion and conuaceptives for their ship with a cup." Dr Viravaidya, an economist, explained neighbors and friends. The organisation, experience and how Ihe family planning program had BUI Ihe program also enlisled the help Irust buill up by Ihe family planning been essenlial for Thailand's develop of many olhers alonglhe way. program now Is servlna olher purposes. ment, and also how its organisation is For instance, Ihere was the problem A program has been developed to pro· now serving as a base for Ihat develop vide the capilal 10 purchase whal is ment. of Ihe American aift of many tonnes of condoms - Ihey were too bia. necessary for profilable acdvilies such He said thai Thailand was one of the as raising pigs. ducks and aeese. even last nations in Asia to introduce family "The question was how 10 tailor Ihe frogs. . condom 10 Thai size. planning. Pan of lhe deal includes communilY By Ihe lale '60s. however. iI had been "We went 10 lhe massage parlors and inlerviewed lhe 10 briahlesl giris we work such as pIaiuiq and maiDlaining realised Ihal overpopulalion led 10 such could find and chose five of Ihem_ fores!. building village dams and problems as poveny, underdevelop manufacturina and constructing menl. and pollulion. "We gave lhero forms 10 fill in. and latrines. In Ihe 16 years since the eslablishmenl paper 10 lear off. and made lhero But already Dl Vinvaidya has his of his non-profit, non-government fami research assislanls of lhe School of eyes on lhe Delli Slag<. He said govern· ly planning program the resulls have Public Heahh. menlS could provide necessary infra· been spectacular. "They measured more Ihan 500 of Slructu.. and adminislfalion. their customen SO that we could come Populalion growth has dropped from up wilh a Thai nalional size. 3.2 per cenllo 1.4 per cenl a year. 190uI Commercial of 20 couples now say that Ihey do nOI "You can'l he shy aboul Ihese Ihings Non-profit, non...overnment if you are aoing 10 suc«ed. wanl more Ih~n IWO children and aboul organisalions could be&in 10 mobilise 70 per cenl of couples use contraception. "In Ihe beginning. for example. Ihe people but were limited by the size and media were ralher hoslile and rude volume of resources Ihey could aboul the .whole program, The resull is /' Tailored command. Ihal DOW Ihe standard Thai word for a "We are now beglnnina 10 ask Ihe This has been achieved by lapping Ibe condom is 'mochai' - you can look il commercial sector to look after cenain resources of some unlikely groups. from up in a dictionary - but I don't mind." villages. il may be one village or len Ihe women who sell sweet, and condoms Anolher Iroup who helped were lhe villages depending on Ihe size of Iheir allheir roadside '1a1l5 10 Ihewi drivers Buddhisl priests. operation. who will play instructional lapes to a "We don't waRt cash, but their skills caplive audience in Bangkok traffic Champions in orpnisad on, finance, production and jams. marketing. Effeclive family plannina depended "We Ihoughl Ihey mia/II oppose us, "It is not a welfare approach; Ihe on informalion and accessibilily. he bUI we sludied lhe Buddhisl scriptures days of asking for money are fasl runn· said. and found a passage which said. 'Many ing oul . . . it's becoming 100 inef· "We wanted contraception to be as binhs make you poor'. " ficient. accessible as vegelables. The group made Ihe Buddhi51 " For real developmenl people musl "This led early on 10 Ihe phrase. authorities aware of this. own profil-making enlerprises." 'Cabbaaes and condoms' (now Ihe name And in Thailand loday. far from op Dr Viravaidya's deve!opmenl pro· of the program's well-known restaurant posing contraception, priests will bless grams have been so successful in in Bangkok)." condoms and sprinkle packs of Thailand Ihal the ideas behind Ihem are BUI by relying only on doclors and conlraceplive pills wilh holy waler. beginning 10 be e,porled. nurses for family planning inform"lion, Dr Viravaidya emphasisesd how im A Ifainina cenlre in Bangkok has al· Ihe group soon realised iI could only ponanl it was nOI 10 coerce people inlo Iracted people from more Ihan 40 barely cover the cities and towns. conlraception. He said lauahler was Ihe countries. MONASH REPORTER P...3 Uniquely qualified to help Even those parenls who have ex Their Careers - A Guide for Parents perience of the education system rind by Warren Mann many changes, and have to think care Published by lile Graduate Career.! Council of Auslralla' fully about how best to advise and sup RRP $9.95 port their children, and how not to mislead or disadvantage them. Warna Ma•• (pleland below) is well published Australia's first Graduate Warren Mann's book addresses these situations. keo•• to ml.Y at Monasb. Careers Director, in 1966. He joined the university in its early The following year he was a key figure It has derails, examples and guidance days, 10 sel up the careers service, and in selling up the Graduale Careers on how to find out more about the developed it into one of the most effec Council of Australia to spread employ system and how to move smoothly from tive in the country. looking not only at ment information to siudenis through school 10 further study or work. helping Monash sludents but also at in out Ausnalia. fluencing and negotiating with Equally importantly for Monash, he The author discusses secondary overall view of the education system and employers, educational authorities. was active in eSlablishing the Monash schooling and careers planning, and the what it leads to - and it has some tren schools and all the olher bodies whose University Club. choices open to the school leaver. chant cartoons by Tandberg. activities affect graduate employment. Since his retirement from Monash in The text is clearly and logically set out With great persistence and hard work. January 1979. he has continued his wilh a derailed index, so (hal if can be Mary Brown and some help and support from a few involvement in careers, particularly as a easily dipped into for specific informa GCCA of the many others concerned with schools careers consultam. tion or read continuously to give an 'PO Box 28, Parkville, 3052 (3474644) destinations, he set up and His careers experience at secondary and tertiary level. plus a science degree and work in the armed forces and in the manufacturing and personnel sides of industry, give Mr Mann unique qualifications in offering careers guidance. and this he has done in the book Their Careers - A Guide Jor Parents, published by the Graduate Careers Council of Australia. Australia has, for a developed coun try, an unusually high proportion of higher education students who are the firs. in their families to enter . higher " educalion. Nr;voiE 'IA$ 'IoU wcE rr Their parents do not understand the system, do not know what to expect and I CA WORD FOR WORP do not know where to find oul. ? Fish fossils tell story /. Ml'f FA1HeR IMPe HI$ MoNEl{ IN L066II16 .••. "0 LIKE 7b fRY S041E1HING elSE - Small group must B carry the burden Mon.... sladents are bopinx Ihal staff and adminislralion will join IHlr renew ed errorts to establish recycllna of paper, cans and bottles on campus_ The ~ona.h Recycling group has painled collection bins that are colo, coded, blue for bollles, red for cans and 1-'I,'(.J6 IllIwquuk fU.\ m~mdl ' n,\' lt' n , ('t sp. no\ . Rn l0ralion or fi sh in lalcrallA, and vcnlral (8, Yiews. green for clean paper, so that these former trash items are salvaged P.J'e Paper Hsed on one side can be re-used - from Devonian end CatIJoniferous fish _, adHad by P .A. Jetl and published by sorted. on the OIh.. side for drafls ere, and a tile Aaaociatlon of Australasian Palaeontologlsts, Sydney t 988 (with tile assistance of recycling stamp can be purchased for a tile Monash Univer.!1ty Publications Commlnee). These bins are sited al various loca tions ~ including the Union. distinctive publiclly label on Ihe oul The author.! include John Lang, former poatgraduate student in tile Department of dated side. Earth Sciences ., Monash, and now a staff member of tile Geology Department, AI p~~nt '8 small group of sludents University of Tasmania. must bear th~ responsibility for oollce Oth.er Monas~ issues about wasle Local inquirieS about ob/aining copies of tile book should be direclad 10 Prolessor Jim ling. emptying and re-siting these bins, prevention· also 10 be taken up include Warren, Clleinnan of tile M~ [)epertmant of Zoology, on ex!. 4630. which makes the scheme still fallible, car-sharing, improvinl Pllblic: transport, espi:!cially towards exam· time. and how it may be Jhade ·possible to im It is to be hoped that this system of prove IOcial responsibility enough to segregated salvage bins will soon be havt returnable crockt'ry that returns taken for granted as a nc,mal part of rather than throw-away plastics in Problem growth Union cafs_ universilY maimenance. reducing the The students are asking staff for The ilem 'A mushrooming problem' which appeared In Sound /3-89 omUted chronic headache of rubbish disposal and providing a source of perks from departmental and individual suppo" 10 IDention of • third species. viz. Agaricus academicus, var. supinus, which develop and improve waste-prevention appean in larae numbers on the campus. seems to nourish under the mushroom shares in the sale of salvage. practices al Monash. and to export these trea.ment and stains yellow under any sort of pressure from above. Wilhin deparlments and libraries, practices to the wider community. George Sliberbauer paper recycling can be encouraged by Anlh,opology and Sociology providing labelled collection boxes at Valerie Yule, strategic sites such as photocopiers. EdacaliOil MONASH REPORTER PaRt" MA'· 19119 Barry Jones to speak at MAGS dinner On June 6. Mr Barry Jones. Ihe of the Australian Research Council. dinner, as in the two previous years. Minister for SdoDCe. Cusloms and Professor Don Aitken; and the chair The dinner will be an imponant func Smllli Business. will _k al lhe dinner man of the Higher Education Council, tion for all postgraduates, providing the '0I10wI8, lhe Anaaal Goneral Meeting Dr Gregor Ramsey. who was a speaker opportunity to hear and question two 0' I... Monosll AssocIation 0' Graduale at the association's conference The men instrumental in the major changes Students (MAGS). Value ofPostgraduate Study - lIS Pur affecting postgraduate education and This visit will provide a unique oppor pose and Objectives held in October training in Victoria and Australia. tunity for Monash postgraduates to hear 1988. For information about the Annulll at first hand the minister whose per Commending the university and its General Meeting and Dinner. and for sistence has finally won out in the fight postgraduate association for their fore bookings. telephone the office of the of Ihe future for science in Australia. sight in holding the conference. Dr Monash Association of Graduate The government initiatives announced Ramsey invited the association to send Students (MAGS) on ext. 3196. 3197 in the May Science Statement are an him the recommendations arising out of and 3198. . acknowled,ement of the fundamental it. Patra Anlonis importance of science and technology to In this way. and through its formal Execud.o Officer. the intellectual and economic wellbeing submissions to the reviews, the Monash MAGS of this country and are a great victory Postgraduate Association has contri for Mr Jones. buted to the formulation of the ,overn Australian science will be boosted by ment' s Higher Education policy. S390 million during the next five years Mr Barry J ones has boen appointed Paris on show in under a SIOOO million science package Deputy Chairman of the Prime announced by the Prime Minister on Minister's new Science Council. Main Ubrary May 8. The council gives Mr Jones greater This injection of funds will go a long power in the coordination of science The noxl oxlllbitioa In the Mllln way towards revising the mood of dis policy and raises the status of science Ubrary ..III fealu", books on Pari.!. City illusionment within the science com within the government portfolios. of Rnolutlon. munity. where poor salaries and lack of • Allocate an additional S500.000 to The association is very pleased to be The books. all published before 1900. career prospects have driven brilliant increase thesis and relocation able to obtain his services as the special have been drawn from the Rare Books young Australian scientists overseas or allowances. guest speaker at its Annual General Room at Monash and private collec out of science altogether. and where • Accept the recommendation of the Meeting and Dinner at this significant tions. school leavers have increasingly chosen Review of Higher Education period in Australia's development. The exhibition will be on view on the not to enrol in science courses. Research Policy, that research award The Vice-Chancellor. Professor first floor of the library from 9 June to holders should be considered as a Logan. will again be guest speaker at the 31 July. Tax free component of the research work The Science Statement has particular force. As such their awards should be significance for postgraduates. administered by the higher education The government has provided $56.9 institutions themselves rather than million of new funds for postgraduate under the Student Assistance Act. awards. • Allocate S197 million more for Next year it will: research in universities and colleges, • Allocate S31 million through the increasing opportunities for post ARC to higher education institutions graduates seeking the training neces to provide for 1450 continuing sary to enter the scientific pro research scholarships and 900 new fessions. research scholarships at a rate be These recommendations were made tween S12.734 and $16,433 (tax unanimously by a panel of the three free). most senior advisers to the Minister for • Provide S500.000 to higher education Employment, Education and Training; institutions to give 30 industry the chairman of the National Board of research scholarships at a rate of Employment, Education and Training, SI6.433. Professor Robert Smith; the chairman Goethe Prize winner • The 1argHI-.vato in New EnaJand" (based 00 lovecrart) Dr Gordon Troup (Reader in PhySiCS) has passed on this Ieller from Dr unwisely recite aloud a spell he had Michael Deakin (senior lecturer in Mathematics) as proof that scientists are learned in the course or his arcane cu"ured human beings. researches, only to summon an invisible Thiog who seizes him and bleeds him Dear Gordon, dry.-In so writing, Bloch sought and ob "By many a lemple hair as old as tained Lovecraf.'s permission, thus You may recall my once disagreeing time" leaving himself open to literary with you over the line"A rose-red city occurring in an 1828 poem Italy: a retribution. half as old as time", attributing it to farewell by Samuel Rogers (1763-1855), This came swirtly with The Hllllnter H_P. Lovecrart and claiming il rormed who is evidently placed ralher higher (on of the Dllrk in which one Roben Blake, part or a particularly fine quatrain. Ihe evidence or 0 B or Q) in Ihe lilerary a writer rrom Milwaukee (Bloch's home Alas, all Ihis was wrong. The true pantheon Ihan Burgon - Ihough I bad town), desecrated a ruined church and story, which I can recount now that I nol previously heard or him.either. purloined from it "the infQmous have my library back, is olherwise; bUI The Lovecrart qualrain goes: Necromicon" and thus subjected recently and by chance I came upon 01 A time-black tower aaainst dim himself to ', whatever punishments the maleriallhal orrers rood ror speculation banks or cloud; book and the tape relate (but which I as 10 a deeper connection belween Ihe Around ils base Ihe palhless, pressing couldn'l be bothered learnina in detail line and lhe quatrain. wood_ - I lislened only 10 pan or Sid. I and 11Ie Oxford Book 01 QaOI.. gives Ihe Shadow and silence, moss and mould, gave up)_ source of the line as Dean Burgon's ettsbroud However, lovec:rarl clearly had Ibe (1845) poem Pttra: Grey, oae-relled slabs Ihal once as betler or his encounter with Block, ror "Match me such marvel save in cromlechs stood". The Hlllln,.r ofthe DIIrlc is remembered Easlern clime, This, I'm sure you will ..rec, is much (by some) loday (panicularly io A rose-red city 'half as old as time'!" finer sturf, and if lhere were any justice America), whereas I would venlur. 10 Burgon is remembered apparenlly on in Ihe world would have earned ror say Ihal The Shllmbler from the StilI'S is ly ror Ihese Iines_ He lived rrom Lovecrart a place in Ihe 0 B or Q which roraollen_ • The spirit of the wlaterla, and Its 1813-I888 and ir lhese, his mOSI knows him nOl- Now ir you've been payina allenlion, Impflcatlons lot' spring and love, was In memorable lines, are also seen as his I round Ihe qualrain In Ihe chapler as (fm sure you have, you'll recoanise voked in this Japane.. dance reeHal best, his neglecl is well-deserved_ headings or Ihe book Citadels of Ihal I've been desperalely resoning 10 an pre..nted by the Japane.. Music Ar Moreover il appears Ihat he may in racl Mystery, an account of famous ruins oae-old Irick: Ihe one or coverina an chive, Mrs YorHo SaHo, a praClhloner of have needed 10 rely on plagiarism 10 rise (Slonehenge, Ankhor, Machu Piechu, error by Ihe provision or a . weallh or lhe Fujima school of dance, performed even to Ihese modesl heights; ror Ihe 0 etc_) - Ihe one here in queslion being twO kabuki styte dances for a lunchtime detail on relaled, bUI nonetheless B or Q draws allenlion 10 Iheir similarily Tikal (in Gualemala)_ Citadels of audience in \he Music Aud"onum. peripheral, mallers_ with the line Mystery was wrillen by L Sprague de None or Ihis demonstrales any con Camp and his wire Calherine C_ de nection between lhe line and Ihe Camp and is a nice piece or popular quatrain - any whalsoever_So Ihe con writin8 in the journalistic style. scientious mathematician must acknow Terror ledge dereal and say "I was wrong"_ L S de C is in ract, as I now learn, a Unless one Ihina_ very prolific wriler. His besl-known For suppose, jusl as Ihe novel is based works are The Floating Continent and A on a now forgolten original, might nO' Planet called Krishna, which I lake 10 he lhe quatrain be also? For lhose or us examples or SCi-fl. His chapler heading who read and once enjoyed (Ibouah now gives no attribution for the Quatrain, I disremember Ihe details or its ending) olher Ihan 10 idenliry ilS aUlhor. II is Ihe The Hllun/er of the DIIrk had no know only indication I have that Lovecraft ledge, and never would have bUI ror Ihe wrote verse. scholarship or L. Sprague de Camp, or Lovecraft was a New England writer The Shambler from the Stars_ aClive c_ SO years ago and besl known Now, lacking delails rrom Ihe helprul ror his lales or lerror which, Ihough L S de C, mighl we nOI (in speculalive ridiculous in many of their aspects, still vein or course) hypothesise lhal just as command a certain power. The best lovecraft set out to give Bloch his come known or these is The Hallnter of the uppance he also, al a dirrerenl lime and Dark, which I read some years ago and for different motives, resolved ·10 OU1 borrowed jU51 lasl week on casselle (in Burgon Burgon or to roger Rogers. abridged rorm) rrom Ihe Prahran local This view has the great merit for me library. II would seem 10 be one or Ihose of turning what 10 the less sophisticated books Ihal don'l really bear re-reading, mighl appear 10 be a simple lapse or but it comes equipped with some in memory into a serendipitous intuition. I lereslina nOles by L Sprague de Camp. thus favor the hypothesis, which. once I summarise these. Lovecraft had a formed, can or course be backed up in pen-pal, Robert Bloch, who in 1935 great detail from the texts. as I am sure wrOle a story called The Shambler from you may do as well as I. 'he StaTS. Its plot has a "mystic recluse Michael Tuesday 6: 8pm Enrol for school Avila Coll