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    Peter Goldsworthy

    We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

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    Peter Goldsworthy

    A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

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    Peter Goldsworthy

    At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose.

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    Peter Goldsworthy

    I could set from memory a replica of the perfect Still Life she laid out on the table each morning: the carefully folded Advertiser, the two canary yellow hemispheres of grapefruit in their bowls, separated by a more richly yellowed cube of butter; the sky blue milk-jug and matching sugar bowl filled to the brim with their differently textured whitenesses; the pot of tea snug in its knitted navy blue cosy, the steam that rose invisibly from its spout suddenly rendered visible, swirling, where it entered the slanting morning light.

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    Peter Goldsworthy

    My affection for you does not depend on those small things.’ Affection? To hear him admit it, to actually utter words of love, however understated, astonished me.