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005			20181030105610.0
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008			180131s2018 xna 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780143785415 _q(pbk.)
020			_a0143785419 _q(pbk.)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1020571299
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100			_aKeneally, Thomas, _eauthor. _95941 _d1935-
245	1	0	_aTwo old men dying / _cThomas Keneally.
260			_aNorth Sydney, N.S.W. : _bVintage Books, _c2018.
300			_a321 pages ; _c24 cm.
520			_aLearned Man is the child of the extraordinary cognitive leap that created humankind, as we know it, thought to have sprung from the Rift Valley in Africa and soon after travelling to ancient Australia. Shelby, the acclaimed documentary-maker, like Learned Man influenced by Heroes, thinks embattled Eritrean society holds promise that it might represent the new cognitive leap, the one that will reconcile our tenderness and our savagery, our reason and our emotions so that we are no longer a dichotomy between the two, so that we are no longer both poets and killers, but a clear-headed and less dichotomised being. Both the old men of the novel have a lens between themselves and reality. Learned Man sees the world through the lens of his responsibility under law. Shelby sees the world through the lens of his camera. Both men are well aware that their landscape comes to them from elders and hero ancestors. Learned speaks to the heroes in dream-trances, Shelby through his camera. The way the hero ancestors speak to and make demands of Learned, heroes and elders speak to Shelby. Both men, Learned and Shelby, are willing to die and, in a sense, kill for their secret crafts. Learned kills a man to save the women and future of his tribe; similarly Shelby's fellow cameraman is a sacrifice to the stories his camera must share, in this instance action in the Vietnam War.
650		0	_aMotion picture producers and directors _vFiction. _942581
650		0	_aDocumentary films _xProduction and direction _vFiction. _97470
650		0	_aFossil hominids _vFiction. _942582
650		0	_aHuman beings _xOrigin _vFiction. _934533
651		0	_aEritrea _vFiction. _942583
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