Ayer's

“Umhum,” Elaine mumbles, examining a teatowel with a print of Ayer's Rock.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

He and Elaine have two seats booked on what they've been reliably told is the best Ayer's Rock tour, leaving on Thursday, which gives them plenty of time for art hunting.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

His guidebook has a photograph, “Ayer's Rock at sunset”, which he's book marked and often returned too.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

A few minutes later, a battered, mud-caked Land Cruiser pulls up outside the pink stucco walls of the Ayer's Rock Resort.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

Oh, and what was it you said Ayer's Rock was called, in the painting and all?

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

The water holes he visited, fights he was in... and here's Ayer's Rock where he ended up.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

“Ladies and gentlemen, we are approaching the Ayer's Rock airport...”

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

Non-cognitivist theories (Hare's prescriptivism, Ayer's emotivism, more recently Allan Gibbard's expressivism), which variously deny that moral statements can be true or false, render moral judgment so subjective and capricious that, strictly speaking, it might just as well extend to "the wrongness of running round trees right-handed or looking at hedgehogs in the light of the moon".

Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010

He had shed his clothes, leaving them in a heap at the gates of the Ayer's Rock Resort, and walked into the desert towards Uluru.

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011

“At least tomorrow we'll get to go climb Ayer's Rock.”

Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011