The Thonglines
by Dominic Pettman

Rather than follow the Aboriginal Songlines, I believe that Bruce Chatwin would have been better advised to follow that other geo-political network of tangled tracks criss-crossing the continent: the rubbery flip-flop of a more modern etiology known as "the Thonglines." Beginning in Europe, and soon incorporating a global aspect, the Thonglines now interlock with the Songlines in a postcolonial puzzle harder to unravel than a telephone extension cord.