| Summary: | The point here is that I’m supposed to write a story. And I think the best way to do it is to
re-write Heart of Darkness but set it in Central Australia. I see similarities between the
Congo Interior and the Outback, in their isolating immensity. There are parallels between
Kurtz’s Inner Station and the violence of colonial history. That violence, through various
guises, has seeped into our present day narrative of space. Stories of mad men hiding out in
the vastness of the desert, real and filmic, add a contemporary flavour to Conrad’s narrative
of rogue agents operating beyond their company’s control. The Outback is ripe with
pickings for a young writer with a predilection for the uncanny and the bloody
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