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Laughter and misfortune--a paradox.
THERE APPEARED in Smiths Weekly, in 1933, a drawing by Stan Cross which was destined to become famous and which remains one of the best known of all Australian cartoons. It depicts a construction worker hanging desperately from a steel girder on a building site. Attached to his feet is a second worker who, in the process of trying to maintain his grip, has pulled the first worker's trousers down about his ankles. The caption reads, "For gorsake stop laughing: this is serious." I note with pleasure that Vane Lindesay's biography of Stan Cross was recently published by Melbourne University Press.
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