Weariness Makes a Good Mattress

Weariness Makes a Good Mattress

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Matthew Clayfield
Sep 11, 2023
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Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow

— T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

A good sheep station ruined.

— Anonymous

Two years ago, I wrote a novella about my time in Canberra. For a laugh, I wrote much of it in the style of Raymond Chandler.

I am sharing it now because my friend Jack Baily was recently hit and killed by a car …

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