# 5HOC, David Duffy *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 May 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice K. Turner *07 May 2002, 07:28* I hoped for an Oz reply. Thanks for clarification--this is not something that I know much about. > It is the obvious link, given the "abo" terminology, which I think is > unique to Australian vernacular, but there is little material specific > to indigenous Australian traditions in "A Story". The Dreamtime ended > long before 1788, though it is a nice conceit to imagining stopping > with the introduction of European time. I think it is a nod to Bradbury, > not _The Exiles_ but a similar short. Don't remember if I've read the Bradbury. Can you tell us why it's not Australian? -alga ---