Lounging Lizard Poet of the Floating World : Attar Books : 9780995120488 : 099512048X : 01 Oct 2019 : New Zealand literature has no one like Keith Hill. Always surprising, a genuine original. - Roger Horrocks THE MODERN DILEMMA Having spent a lifetime of Western privilege doing the limbo while jumping over my knees I feel it is my right now to proclaim I consider myself short-changed. During hours spent stopped in rush hour queues I have meticulously catalogued the disparities between what people heap on their teaspoons and the unnamed ghouls that slink past their windows at night. I will try to keep it short. But there is no way to make it pretty. I begin by stating the obvious. Everyone is so distracted by abstract nouns -democracy religion economics freedom biology sexuality orientation identity status fashion novelty literature- they don't notice what is really going on. I refer to the modern process by which the machinery of civilisation inserts a st