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Had to dodge a poetry recital to clock the last displays in "The Life Of Patrick White" at the State Library. It traced this complex character from youthful privilege at the cost of alienation to wartime adventure (yet another writer/intelligence officer) and enduring love, to literary stardom and twilight years dotted with political activism. Incidentally, the exhibition taught me there were once plans to build an Olympic stadium in Centennial Park and that a Nobel Prize can look pretty funky. I badly want to read PW's unfinished novel, "The Hanging Garden".