Sylvia Lawson is the author of How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia.
Australia, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
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