Waking Waking we read the straight words of The Wimmera Mail-Times for October 18th, 2011. ‘Mystery earth tremor shakes Horsham’, writes Caroline Tang, and she continues. ‘A mystery earth tremor shook a Horsham street on Tuesday last week. Steve Kemp, who was at home in Citrus Avenue, said he was alarmed by a 'massive bang' which shook his house for about five to 10 seconds at 4.15pm. Mr Kemp said he thought a large object had slammed into the back of his property. He said he ran outside and could not find anything. "My next door neighbour came out and said things had come off the wall in her house," Mr Kemp said. "We live across the road from Howden Toyota and half a dozen of their mechanics had come outside and were also trying to work out what was going on. "Looking up Citrus Avenue, a fair few people were looking around as well." Mr Kemp said he had checked the Geoscience Australia website and nothing had been recorded. He said the bang was louder than a sonic boom or aircraft, both of which he had heard before, and suggested it was an earth tremor. "There was a fire in a truck here in January on the Western Highway ? all the tyres exploded ? the bang I heard was three times as loud as that, easily," Mr Kemp said. "I have experienced earthquakes before, so that's why I thought it was one." He said his home's front windows also rattled for about 20 seconds around midnight on the same day. Geoscience Australia seismologists checked their seismic network stations for the Horsham area around the time of the Citrus Avenue tremor, but found no seismic activity. A Geoscience Australia spokeswoman said the tremor was unlikely to have been an earthquake. The Mail-Times reported in June that a 3.8-magnitude earthquake had hit the Grampians, the second largest on record in the region, with slight aftershocks recorded.’ End quote.
Dreaming The
signature is the first sign of human contact over the land. We see the great
curves and rolls and wriggles as the signature comes clear. Here it comes, the
slight tremor of the writing hand, and there it goes. All writing comes out
this way, as the letters form with the tremor of nerve and finger and eye. Our
name emerges in writing, a tremor of the mind and word shape. The human body,
so still so enveloped in repose, and yet even at our calmest there are minor
tremors: the chest rise and falls, arteries pulse close to the surface, our
eyelids flicker as we experience a dream definition.
Tremor, 2013 (Philip Hunter)
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