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You're leaving? You're growing leaves, like the trees on my street?

I have this image of you being clad in leaves, and nothing else, like a wood nymph.

(Yes, I know that the usual term is "leafing," but "leaving" has its place in poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote: "Margaret, are you grieving / over Goldengrove unleaving?" If he thinks "unleaving" is a word in the botanical sense, then "leaving" is a word, too.)
 
gunhilltrain said:
Hey, electricblue, since I have your attention, did Walkabout take some artistic liberties? It appears that one could drive from the Sydney to the Outback in a single afternoon (maybe I don't remember it correctly). I'd guess it takes longer than that? Second, were there still Aborigines living like that in the 1970's?
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A few. There might have been some scene setting with shots of the Harbour Bridge, but as I recall the plot, they were driving north from Adelaide into the desert where the car broke down. That can be done in a day. It's not really clear whether they got as far as the Northern Territory or not, but northern South Australia is mostly true desert.

But if you drove half a day west from Sydney, you'd be in the outback, but not the desert. That's another day, still going west.

Young Aboriginal men would definitely have gone walkabout fifty years ago - there are still some remote desert communities who keep their traditional ways.

The whole north-west corner of South Australia, now known as the APY Lands, is a Local Government Area for Aboriginal people, protected by legislation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aṉangu_Pitjantjatjara_Yankunytjatjara
 
Athalia said:
You're leaving? You're growing leaves, like the trees on my street?

I have this image of you being clad in leaves, and nothing else, like a wood nymph.

(Yes, I know that the usual term is "leafing," but "leaving" has its place in poetry. Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote: "Margaret, are you grieving / over Goldengrove unleaving?" If he thinks "unleaving" is a word in the botanical sense, then "leaving" is a word, too.)
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I think I might like to be a wood nymph 😊.

Em
 
electricblue66 said:
A few. There might have been some scene setting with shots of the Harbour Bridge, but as I recall the plot, they were driving north from Adelaide into the desert where the car broke down. That can be done in a day. It's not really clear whether they got as far as the Northern Territory or not, but northern South Australia is mostly true desert.

But if you drove half a day west from Sydney, you'd be in the outback, but not the desert. That's another day, still going west.

Young Aboriginal men would definitely have gone walkabout fifty years ago - there are still some remote desert communities who keep their traditional ways.

The whole north-west corner of South Australia, now known as the APY Lands, is a Local Government Area for Aboriginal people, protected by legislation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aṉangu_Pitjantjatjara_Yankunytjatjara
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You have to remember that I haven't seen it since that evening in 1974, so I don't remember certain details. The Harbor Bridge was definitely in it, but I wouldn't have even heard of Adelaide at that point. Most of what was going on with the Dad has been lost to me by now. I don't remember the Gulpilil character even being able to speak English, and I don't know if that would be likely or not. Almost all American Indians speak English and I think many of them have lost their original languages. The word "aborigine" is not used that I remember.

The impression that I got back than is that it is taking place in Australia, but also in some fictional "space" (literally a space) that Nicholas Roeg made up. It's more like he was trying to present an metaphor between "civilized" and "non-civilized" and where it takes place is secondary.
 
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