>The master of political
>invective, IMO, was Paul Keating, lovingly archived at
>
>http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/
[...]
>the man was a genius.
And he, in his tough sadomonetarism, inspired the catchy poem by John Forbes that Meaghan Morris uses as the epigraph to "Ecstasy and Economics":
Watching the Treasurer
I want to believe the beautiful lies the past spreads out like a feast.
Television is full of them & inside their beauty you can act: Paul Keating's
bottom lip trembles then recovers like the exchange rate under pressure
buoyed up as the words come out - elegant apostle of necessity, meaning
what rich Americans want, his world is like a poem, completing that utopia
no philosopher could argue with, where what seems, is & what your words describe
you know exists, under a few millimetres of invisible cosmetic, bathed
in a milky white flourescent glow.