Introduction

Welcome to the very busy main studio in my little Adelaidean villa, dear gentle reader.  How delightful of you to take an interest in my ethereal life and opinions!  Now, where should I start?

A formal introduction

Both the universal and the particular aspects of experience form the basis of my exceedingly fashionable and important work, of course, and I send my amicable and euphonious greetings to you from the glorious Antipodean village of Adelaide.  You may be familiar with Adelaide yourself, and may even consider it to be the world's most wonderful city.  It is, indeed, the arts and news capital of planet earth, especially during weekday afternoons.

Self portrait

If you are wondering how to address me here, my official names are Twaklin of Adelaide, Twaklin Adelaidezone, Adelaide Zone Twaklin, Adelaide's Own Twaklin, Twaklin the Grateful, and Milady Twaklin, Muse of the World.  If we already know each other quite well, you may just call me Twaklin, although even my most dear and intimate friends usually call me Madame or Madame Adelaidezone. What should I call you?

Many well-informed persons perceive me as serious, elegant and somewhat grand in my role as the chief executive officer of the International Training Centre for the Harmonious Interplay of Beauty, Understanding and Magnificence. If you wish to attend one of the Centre's courses, do please send me an appropriately dignified form of communication with an outline of your creative training requirements.


In Society

Enlightened persons in the 21st century are usually aware of my activities as a free-range social commentator, policy analyst and cultural critic.  These are tasks for which I am exceedingly well qualified, especially whilst sipping tea in my parlour.  Are you aware that I have a parlour meant for every courteous and considerate conversationalist?

Suitably elegant investigations also form the basis of many of my blog-pamphleteering interludes.  I frequently visit Mr Google's bookshop and the Duke and Duchess of Wikipedia's salon, and I occasionally make the acquaintance of a varied assortment of personages within Mr Twitter's Coffee House and at Lady Facebookian's soirées.  You may wish to introduce yourself if you ever attend events in any of those ethereally unpredictable environments.

Perhaps you have also heard that whenever a deliciously democratic election is likely to take place in Adelaide, whether of the local, state or federal varieties, I am usually called upon to be the Australian campaign manager for the Mozarty Party.  Such elections are tremendously amusing to enlightened beings such as myself.

The Mozarty Party's success at making all other political parties look ridiculously incompetent has exceeded everyone's expectations.  I have therefore gracefully accepted the invitation to become the Party's global campaign manager.  Wherever you may be in the world, do consider joining the Mozarty Party if you wish to support our universally enlightening and exquisitely engaging political and musical efforts.

Even with so many other important duties to perform, I am also an active member of the Revolutionary Climatological Needlepoint Committee, the Musical Silver Snuff Box Society and the Australian Political Reform Club.  I also assist several charitable institutions, providing voluntary assistance for the benefit of a multitude of unfortunate material individuals of various shapes and sizes. 


In communication

If you wish to participate in any of my pursuits, do let me know by initiating a suitably courteous, witty and insightful correspondence.  Purposeful literary pleasantries always make one's tea taste better.

I am always delighted to hear from enlightened beings with artistic, cultural and historical connections of impeccable integrity, especially Mozartians of various persuasions, Adelaideans with acceptable standards of hygiene, and publishers with a taste for quality.  Such personages do not usually require my charitable assistance and, on the contrary, are likely to provide significant patronage for my various endeavours.

Although I conduct a great deal of correspondence, I have the capacity to do so with relative ease.  As well as being the composer of several blog-pamphlets, an opera and a suitable political philosophy for world peace, I frequently seek the opinions of my eminent and enlightened peers, one of whom may even be yourself, dear reader.  In view of this, you are most welcome to commence communication if you deem your ideas to be worthy of my attention.

For a private and delightful correspondence, you may wish to send your beautifully inscribed notes through the discrete and reliable courier service provided by Sir Email. He is, most fortunately, very well aware that the address of my unpretentious little villa is:

twaklin (AT) gmail . com

My staff and I shall do our best to answer your queries in an enlightened manner, as long as you are willing and able to forward the required fee.