期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：For forty years, or near enough to, the man that I see in my mind only as if through glass, had been the more than competent manager of the Government Guesthouse, for forty years when it had still served a purpose, had still had a role to play. That was until his last day came, in the common way in which the future turns into the present, like pale light entering brightness, a day that was by no coincidence at all the final one of their operational life for the few remaining guesthouses of the same sort, of the same sort in the country that the man was satisfied he had served well, for every year of his working days. He felt it only an honour in the very lowest degree, however, that the officials who decide such things had waited until his retirement day in particular, to end the arrangement once and for all of providing convenient accommodation for those people forced to travel, on government business, to the less-populated areas of the land of Australia
