AustLit

'I remember people being surprised that I liked Kenny. As if it were somehow beneath me, somehow irreconcilable with the Godard- and Bergman-loving poseur they clearly believed me to be. It was irritating.' (Introduction)

'We make Westerns for the same reason the Inuit make igloos: because the landscape disposes us to. The immense sky, the rust-coloured earth, the vast, barren spaces of our interior ... how could Australian filmmakers not feel compelled to use these! Hollywood claims the genre as its own, as distinctly American as jazz and school shootings, bat history argues otherwise: the first Australian feature film - the earliest feature-length narrative film in the world, in fact - was Charles Tait’s The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in 1506. (And two years before that came a sort, Bushranging in North Queensland, made by the Salvation Army's Melbourne-based Limelight Department. Which, improbably enough, was one of the first dedicated film studios on the planet.)' (Introduction)

'Like the majority of Australians, I grew up in the suburbs - the southern suburbs of Sydney, to be precise; I was a Kogarah boy. I had no idea, at the time, that I was inhabiting a dismal purgatory, a haven for provincial smallmindedness, hypocritical piety and low-level kink, from which I could either escape (to the city or, better, overseas) or face the slow extinction of my finer feelings... How could I know? I’d read none of the books, seen none of the movies that might foster this belief. I don’t believe the phrase “the Australian ugliness” was ever uttered, either at my primary school or in my parents’ house. Only later, better read and more aware, did it occur to me that I was supposed to despise the things I had cherished. And then, obediently, I did.' (Introduction)

'Seeking a new laboratory to pursue his controversial genetic research, Dr Geoff

Burton takes up a position at the world-renowned Institute for Molecular Cell Biology

& Genetics in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most top-secret

project – a human regeneration gene – has the potential to make something

miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. But when he

uncovers a conspiracy amongst his colleagues, he finds instead something quite

different: a terrifying new virus, with potentially devastating consequences for

humanity – and for Geoff, who is not only its first victim, but its unwitting source.'

Source: Official website (http://errorsofthehumanbody.com/about/). (Sighted: 26/6/2013)