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The Dutch-Australian connection: Willem Siebenhaar, D.H. Lawrence, Max Havelaar and Kangaroo.(Critical Essay)

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From: Australian Literary Studies
Date: 20030501
Author:Eggert, Paul

And the spiritual body is supposed to be something thin and immaterial, that can float through a brick wall and subsist on mere thought. Jack had always hated this thin, wafting object. He preferred his body solid. He loved the beautiful weight and transfigured solidity of living limbs. He had no use whatsoever for the gossamer stuff of the supposed 'ethereal,' or 'pure' spirit: like evaporated alcohol. He had a natural dislike of Shelley and vegetarians and socialists and all advocates of 'Spirit.' (The Boy in the Bush 175)

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SO reflects Jack Grant, the young ...

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