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Rationing:
The physical contact dissolved some hard center of logic within him. And Saburo wondered, with sudden urgency, whether his father was really as self-sufficient as he had always assumed him to be.

‘White men, he began, made the common mistake of assuming that because the Aboriginals were wanderers, they could have no system of land tenure.this was nonsense. Aboriginals, it was tie, could imagine territory as a block of land hemmed in by frontiers: but rather as an interlocking network of ‘lines’ or ‘ways through’. ‘

‘A man’s verses were his title deeds to territory.’

‘The Aboriginals, he went on, we’re a people who trod lightly over the earth; and the less they took from the earth, the less they had to give in return.’

‘In Aboriginal belief, an unsung land is a dead land: since, if the songs are forgotten, the land itself will die.’

Baster: ‘Have you noticed? Flowers have gone multicultural, too. Not a single rose, tulip, or daffodil lifted its head from the vase. Instead, jungle flora erupted: Amazonian orchids, Sumatran flytraps.’

Baster: ‘Everyone knows that men objectify women. But none of our sizing up of breasts and legs can compare with the cold-blooded calculation of a woman in the market for semen. Tomas is was a little taken aback by it herself, and yet she couldn’t help it: once she made her decision, she began to see me. As walking spermatozoa.’