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HEAT Series 1

Trading Stories

HEAT 15: Out-back
2000

On the seventh dune we stopped, searched, and found the plant. It was almost anticlimactic to see it extending out of the red crest of dune. A pale, unremarkable-looking shrub with small bell-shaped flowers.

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Two Poems

HEAT 2
1996

Xi Chuan (‘Western River’) is the poetic nom-de-plume of Li Jun. Born in 1963 in Jiangsu, he grew up mainly in Beijing and published his first collection of poems in 1991.

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Karmic Traces

HEAT 9
1998

We in the American middle-class grew up in a world almost entirely devoid of smells, except for that of household cleaning products, and barely remember our childhoods at all, except for the television programmes.

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The Mungo Excursion

HEAT 15: Out-back
2000

Nicholas Jose visits Lake Mungo at the turn of the millennium: ‘The setting at the lunette was conducive to time travel, to feeling dwarfed and transitory, which is one version of the sublime.’

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Speaks Shadow

HEAT 2
1996

I suppose I knew, even then, that my feelings for David were unreciprocated. But such feelings were complex; one could not easily unmake them. So I stayed longer than was sensible, an artist’s dark-haired mistress, the drunk, the second fiddle, the woman at parties and exhibitions, jagged in her speech, pathetic, rude, waiting to be conferred some order of substantiality.

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