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| | Watson, Elliot Lovegood Grant (1885 - 1970) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | WATSON, ELLIOT LOVEGOOD GRANT (1885-1970), biologist, writer and mystic, was born on 14 June 1885 at Staines, Middlesex, England, elder son of Reginald Grant Watson, gentleman, and his wife Lucy, née Fuller. |
 | | Distinguished by a precise as well as a poetic evocation of the landscape and by an empathy with the Aborigines, Watson's Australian novels are also important for their use of the desert as a metaphor of the Unconscious and, metaphysically, as an image of the Void as the womb of all possible manifestations. |
 | | Watson faced the desert with awe, not fear, and had a real affinity with the bush. |
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