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Epigraph: san jen ch'eng hu Three persons make a tiger (Fiction repeated often enough will be taken for fact. Han Fei Tzu asked the King of Wei, 'Suppose someone should tell you that a tiger was prowling in the market, would you believe him? King Wei answered, 'No, certainly not.' 'And if a second person should come and tell you the same thing?' The reply was, 'Then I would still be sceptical.' 'If a third person should confirm this?' 'Then I would be inclined to believe it,' said the King.)
A white stork in the clouds cannot be trapped by a net spread for sparrows. Chinese proverb.
tzu fei yu an chih le
You not being a fish yourself, how can you tell that the fish is happy?
(A conversation in Chuang Tzu runs thus: Wei Tzu said to Chuang Tzu, 'You not being a fish yourself, how can you tell that the fish is happy?' Chuang Tzu replied, 'You not being I, how do you know that I do not know that the fish is happy?')
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Searching for Saints
1968
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— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 March vol. 89 no. 4591 1968; (p. 5,8) -
Merit of Scatological Writing
1968
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— Appears in: The Australian , 8 May 1968; (p. 8) -
Letter to the Editor
1968
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— Appears in: The Australian , 8 May 1968; (p. 8) -
Mr Kiernan Missed Satire
1968
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— Appears in: The Australian , 22 April 1968; (p. 8) -
Untitled
1968
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review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 October 1968; (p. 12)
— Review of Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel
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Recent Novels
1968
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review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer (1968-1969) no. 40 1968; (p. 39-41)
— Review of Montgomery and I 1968 single work novel ; The Chantic Bird 1968 single work novel ; Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel ; Count Your Dead : A Novel of Vietnam 1968 single work novel ; A Boat Load of Home Folk 1968 single work novel ; Tell Morning This 1967 single work novel ; The Wine of God's Anger 1968 single work novel -
Untitled
1968
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review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April vol. 7 no. 6 1968; (p. 115)
— Review of Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel -
Naughtiness of a Very Odd Sort
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 6 April 1968; (p. 14)
— Review of Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel -
Welcome Mutation
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 20 April vol. 90 no. 4598 1968; (p. 68)
— Review of Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel -
Untitled
1968
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 26 October 1968; (p. 12)
— Review of Three Persons Make a Tiger 1968 single work novel -
Searching for Saints
1968
single work
column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 March vol. 89 no. 4591 1968; (p. 5,8) -
Mr Kiernan Missed Satire
1968
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian , 22 April 1968; (p. 8) -
Letter to the Editor
1968
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 May 1968; (p. 8) -
Merit of Scatological Writing
1968
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 May 1968; (p. 8)