Item 01: Malcolm Shore Stanley correspondence, 8 December 1916-28 October 1918 - Page 67
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you can draw a picture more accurately than I can - Poor beggars - it seems terrible that men can be so absolutely lacking in reason. Education doesn't seem to help a very great deal, & even men whose religion is pretty broad seem to me to be just as open to bias on lots of social questions. I guess I'm a pretty big "fule" but all the same, I can't help marvelling & wondering how it is that we're given brains at all. I don't much care for the responsibility but when as often as not the sum works out on the lines of whats to be will be, I s'pose its no use trying to do more than one' s best, however poor that is.
Goodness - thats got nothing to do with Diprotodon (on the surface at anyrate!) and I was going to tell you about another new case. Parrots & Cockatoos this time. They are most brilliant, & some have the loveliest colouring under their wings. One chap is shades of mauve - He'd be a dream if he was a frock - As it is he suits the scheme. Where as ten to one a woman would spoil the frock if she carried it round. I'd like to be a bird with lots of coloured feathers - always provided I lived on a desert island - "desert" so far as enemies of whatsoever kind you may mention - I'm as mad as ever you observe, but colour