A laughing Atomou (portrait by our much loved Lehan Winifred Ramsay
Dear Patrons de la salle de Porc,
For your Christmas pleasure, a recent radio interview of our eternal colleague, Mr George Theodorides aka Atomou or ‘Mou.
Atomou Speaks … on Children !
25 Monday Dec 2017
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Nice to see you Ato, now if I could get the link to work.
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Many thanks, guys.
And I hope you are all having a joyous, if not blissful time of it, this bunch of days and weeks.
Daughter No 2, now with a 12 month, muscle-and-mind boy, at the Xmas party (at the in-laws) just announced her engagement to her muscle-and-mind man. I mumbled something about shotguns until I got a jab in my ribs… in good mirth and buoyant gaiety, of course!
Life has been frantic but most joyful these past 50 years or so…
Lecturing (or whatever) at the various branches of the U3A on the classics and recording an audio version of Oedipus Rex for Vision Australia (volunteers, all of us) and very much hoping that we’ll be staging either this play or, perhaps Medea or Elektra… Iphigeneia in Aulis? Still thinking.
Excitement all around.
I pop in here whenever I get a chance and see that you lot still have barrels of creative juices and humours to resurrect thousand-year old carcasses.
Grandparents now to a two-year old lady (Arina) and this one-year old little Spartan, Ashton. Veeeeeeery busy and veeeeery joyfully so.
My warmest (and I don’t mean lukewarm) wishes to you all. Keep up the imaginings and the fantasies. It’s great stuff!
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I have shared on the link to your interview with 96.5FM, George. I felt it as loving and an nspiration to hear someone of your experience speaking of children needing the support of love that is real and close at hand. I hope my children have an opportunity to listen to it as well.
I am a great admirer of Professor Blainey’s treatise on the tyranny of distance, its endurance, continuing applicability that inefficient public transport and rail networks, the cost of air travel and by sea keeps children from families and extended support … add war and the refugee crisis, the contemporary disregard shown a poorly spoken of, maligned category, the alleged economic refugee. That you have drawn the parallel for children of emotional distance and its consequences touches me so very deeply.
Lovely to have you with us Christmas 2017. Best wishes.
Christina.
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Good stuff. Lovely to hear your voice.
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Good stuff George. I had a catholic education and hated every minute of it. There was never that arm of support that you talked about.
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