Now this apparent carelessness of mine doesn't mean that I was totally indifferent to what happens in “The Thorn Birds.” In fact I often cared considerably. The page number cited for the event would almost always precede the actual page on which the event occurred. When I consulted several other important events in the three‐generation history of the Clearys - mostly these events are deaths, because the Clearys do a great deal of dying-I found the same pattern repeated. 485.” This was curious, because when I actually turned to the cited page it turned out that Dane had not actually drowned until page 487. Going over the notes I kept while reading “The Thorn Birds”-and there were many pages of them because an awful lot happens in Colleen McCullough's novel about 54 years in the life of an Australian, sheep‐farming family - I found that one entry wanted to check read “Dane drowns-P.
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