This week I had the pleasure of attending the Annual Lecture of the Hamilton Literary Society, the oldest continuing literary society in Australia. In accordance with tradition the current president is the wife of the Governor of Tasmania, Mrs Frances Underwood. Mrs Underwood invited members and guests to Government House to celebrate the 122nd anniversary of the society by holding the Annual Lecture there. Ms Heather Rose, a respected, award-winning Tasmanian author, gave a stimulating and engaging lecture on Anna Karenina. Heather wove together insights into the themes and characterisation of Tolstoy's novel with perceptive comments on the pleasures and transforming power of the act of reading.
It was an interlude of civil discourse in another of Tasmania's gems (Government House) and a sad contrast with the current state of shrill, partisan, opinionising that too often passes for public debate in today's Australia.
It was an interlude of civil discourse in another of Tasmania's gems (Government House) and a sad contrast with the current state of shrill, partisan, opinionising that too often passes for public debate in today's Australia.
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