Friday 3 March 2017

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PREFACE:
SET UP FOR PARADISE


Local government municipalities would have not known in permitting construction of the huge shaded truck weigh-bridge along the Hume Highway how welcoming a sight it would be to the hellaciously bored driver.

The dry spread of landscape is shaped into edible pieces by this thing—into two bites of palatable road. A driver darting corpse-straight along the Hume northwards from the city—likely bored by endless hot-as-Hades paddocks and flora preferred in paintings of settlers boiling billy cans on hand-sawn stumps—can draw titbits of inspiration like go on, go a little further from this reminder of civil life.

If one were to spend some time analysing the structure (as I have) they may also discover it stands for the hope of replenishing shade and the marvellous jewels of civilisation like it which await the fatigued driver at their destination. But who has time for that? Well, many. In fact all those who take the Hume have the space and time for such deliberation. But they do not. I have found I am alone with my experience. I am continually saddened to hear friends who've driven the Hume fail to understand my admiration for The Bridge, Saviour of The Hume (T.B.S.O.T.H)1.

For those who may or may not already know: the Hume Highway is repetitive and hot, and this weigh-bridge stands for nothing other than paradise just ahead. 

Long live T.B.S.O.T.H. 




1. After hours of empathetic reasoning, I have wrestled the assumption that people do not engage with The Bridge because unlike me their car radios and air conditioners very likely work. Therefore their minds have never been forced to squabble over inane structures for psychological survival on the world's hottest, toughest motorway (located between Melbourne and Shepparton). Lucky them.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Nico Corbo, Can you please send me an email address that I can reach you on? Thanks,
    Namaste, Donna

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  2. Hiya!

    Give this one a crack:

    18094674@students.latrobe.edu.au

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