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Flat White

Why I write or Hemingway’s chicken suit

29 August 2021

12:00 PM

29 August 2021

12:00 PM

Flat White lore is rich with stories of those who didn’t quite make it and those who did make it but we really wish hadn’t, and those who may make it very soon if we don’t do something to stop it.  

For example, did you know that Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull once pitched a column to the Speccie about vertical integration and climate change based entirely on the Abbott and Costello ‘who’s on first ‘routine, but it didn’t go ahead when they couldn’t agree whether to publish in Mandarin or CCP.

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