Mark-ing time

Work on Commune continues apace ... I'm very nearly done on the ever-expanding first half, it's likely to wind up about 108 pages now.

Finally managed to get to the library on the weekend and I'm taking a very pleasurable journey around Australia with one Mark Twain, who visited our shores in 1897 (on one of his last speaking tours). He truly was one of the few great humourists - I think the last time I laughed so much at a book was upon my first reading of They're a Weird Mob - and it's also nice to get some Australian history through an objective American filter and free from liberalist revisionism.