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Australia (/蓲藞stre瑟li蓹/, /蓹-/, colloquially /-j蓹/), officially known as the Commonwealth of Australia, is an Oceanian country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. ...more

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“ The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle. ”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

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“ You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing nothing nothing. You scorched suntanned. Old too quickly. Acres of suburbs watching the telly. You bore me. Freckle silly children. You nothing much. With your big sea. Beach beach beach. I鈥檝e seen enough already. You dumb dirty city with bar stools. You鈥檙e ugly. You silly shopping town. You copy. You too far everywhere. You laugh at me. When I came this woman gave me a box of biscuits. You try to be friendly but you鈥檙e not very friendly. You big ugly. You too empty. You desert with your nothing nothing nothing. You scorched suntanned. Old too quickly. Acres of suburbs watching the telly. You bore me. Freckle silly children. You nothing much. With your big sea. Beach beach beach. I鈥檝e seen enough already. You dumb dirty city with bar stools. You鈥檙e ugly. You silly shopping town. You copy. You too far everywhere. You laugh at me. When I came this woman gave me a box of biscuits. You try to be friendly but you鈥檙e not very friendly. You never ask me to your house. You insult me. You don鈥檛 know how to be with me. Road road tree tree. I came from crowded and many. I came from rich. You have nothing to offer. You鈥檙e poor and spread thin. You big. So what. I鈥檓 small. It鈥檚 what鈥檚 in. You silent on Sunday. Nobody on your streets. You dead at night. You go to sleep too early. You don鈥檛 excite me. You scare me with your hopeless. Asleep when you walk. Too hot to think. You big awful. You don鈥檛 match me. You burnt out. You too big sky. You make me a dot in the nowhere. You laugh with your big healthy. You want everyone to be the same. You鈥檙e dumb. You do like anybody else. You engaged Doreen. You big cow. You average average. Cold day at school playing around at lunchtime. Running around for nothing. You never accept me. For your own. You always ask me where I鈥檓 from. You always ask me. You tell me I look strange. Different. You don鈥檛 adopt me. You laugh at the way I speak. You think you鈥檙e better than me. You don鈥檛 like me. You don鈥檛 have any interest in another country. Idiot centre of your own self. You think the rest of the world walks around without shoes or electric light. You don鈥檛 go anywhere. You stay at home. You like one another. You go crazy on Saturday night. You get drunk. You don鈥檛 like me and you don鈥檛 like women. You put your arm around men in bars. You鈥檙e rough. I can鈥檛 speak to you. You burly burly. You鈥檙e just silly to me. You big man. Poor with all your money. You ugly furniture. You ugly house. You relaxed in your summer stupor. All year. Never fully awake. Dull at school. Wait for other people to tell you what to do. Follow the leader. Can鈥檛 imagine. Workhorse. Thick legs. You go to work in the morning. You shiver on a tram. ...more ”
― Ania Walwicz

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