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ABSTRACT: Launceston has no history, rather it has histories and every one imagined and
every one belonging to someone. James Baldwin said "people are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." ~ Notes of a Native Son. John Aubrey (16261697) said "how these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down!" ~ Lives of Eminent Men, but this is no history, rather it is a muse upon 13 words written 1969 while imagining a place as it was then and before – Launceston.
These 13 words are 'historic' and they the first to appear in John Reynolds "Launceston: history of an Australian city" and in a 21st Century context they spark imagining not quite entertained 1969 when Launceston's 'history' was being compiled and imagined. As much as anything it is a muse upon the cultural landscape that is Launceston and was ponrabbel until say1806 so far as anyone can tell.
Then Launceston was a different place, placescaped somewhat differently and a place imagined in the world somewhat differently to most of the ways it is imagined 'now'. Its 'placedness' was quite different then as it has been before then, right now and looking forward. ... CLICK HERE TO READ THE ESSAY
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