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Creativity starves insanity
Few stamps in the Australian Legends - Designers range remain on display at the philatelic section of the underground QVB post office. A section separated from the main traffic of turtles and snails.
The seemingly woeful time impoverished find themselves chomping on the selections in order to curb waiting time, denying the true collectors any sense of completeness. This little exercise in slashing the standing time creates a slight chase, watching the destruction of clean perforations molested in order to send mere letters across the continent and planet at large.
Patience waiting in a line of nobodies is certainly a disconcerting sight. The white-haired old lady behind the counter, unable to sustain a pause and uncomfortable behind an open bench top, strives to hurry along anyone standing around waiting for the foot traffic to make its own clear decisions.
When a reformed stamp collector lets others pass, the counter hag slams a patronising tone, asking whether or not the stamps in hand are stamps in hand. This impatience never clears up, the lack of openness and even an absence of simple courtesy, raising questions as to why she would choose to stand at the helm of the collectors section when clearly collectors are not to be tolerated.
Such is the harshness that a reminder of another cut-off date for ALP financial membership looks likely to lapse again. One final cut-off date read January 31, 2005. Today is too late. A lack of bullish charm, the re-appointment of Kim Beazely as leader and Mark Latham thrust out into the cold all signal a ring of apathy and ambivalence. Not this year. Certainly not a the rate above concessional.
Soon Van - Friday, 1 April 2005 - 10:10
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