Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World

Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World
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The young Wooreddy recognised the omen immediately, accidentally stepping on it while bounding along the beach: something slimy, something eerily cold and not from the earth. <i>Since it had come from the sea, it was an evil omen.</i><br /><i>Soon after, many people died mysteriously, others disappeared without a trace, and once-friendly families became bitter enemies. The islanders muttered, 'It's the times', but Wooreddy alone knew more: the world was coming to an end.</i><br /> <br />In Mudrooroo's unforgettable novel, considered by many to be his masterpiece, the author evokes with fullest irony the bewilderment and frailty of the last native Tasmanians, as they come face to face with the clumsy but inexorable power of their white destroyers.<br /> <br /><i>A novel of real power and stature</i>. – Adelaide Advertiser<br /> <br /><i>In Dr Wooreddy, Mudrooroo has taken his previous themes of (Aboriginal) heritage and identity and melded them into one perception. This is an amazing book</i>. – Newcastle Herald<br /> <br /><i>Powerfully imaginative, unflinchingly honest, rich in imagery and alive with comic ironies</i>. – Australian Book Review<br /> <br /><i>Outstanding</i>. – Boston Herald

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Mudrooroo. Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the End of the World

CONTENTS

1. The Omen

2. Seek Allies

3. Flight from the Ill-omened Land

4. Into Occupied Territory

5. They put them in Captivity

6. The Ending of the World

Afterword. Mudrooroo, Aboriginal Writer of Many Identities

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1. The Omen

2. Seek Allies

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‘Fader’ gave him some white powder for his wife’s sickness. He mixed it in water and gave it to her to drink. It did no good. She was so weak that she could not sit up. Her body flamed with fever, and to ease her suffering Wooreddy took a sharp piece of glass (shell was a thing of the past) and slashed the most painful parts of her body. The bad blood ran out. For a few days Lunna seemed better, then she had a relapse and died. Wooreddy performed the last rites and sent her soul on the first stage of the journey to Great Ancestor. Then his eldest son caught the coughing sickness and followed his mother into the fire. Wooreddy looked at his youngest son, acknowledged his responsibility, and decided to help him to survive.

Meeter Ro-bin-un did not like anyone going around naked like a human. He wanted everyone to cover their bodies as the ghosts did. ‘Novillee, novillee’ (not good, not good), he repeated over and over again to them in his atrocious accent. Wooreddy could see nothing wrong in showing the maturity of his manhood. What was wrong for the male to do was to neglect the hair. He took great care in keeping his locks smeared with the heavy ointment made from whale oil and red ochre. But now as he was going to see ‘Fader’, he pulled on a long shirt and then stuck a feather in his hair.

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