ABSTRACT
In her short, but erudite discussion of Milorad Pavic’s Landscape Painted with Tea the late Angela Carter (1993) reminded us that we need new ways of reading, new ways of grasping the subtext of what lies beneath a ‘rich palimpsest of stories and counter stories that provide the material for Pavic’s crossword clues’ (p. 18). Such is the case with Becoming Critical (Carr & Kemmis, 1986); each reading becomes a new reading as we, the readers, change and the times themselves alter. Just as there are many subtleties in the shades of colour offered by teas – fruit teas, tisanes, caravan tea, green tea, Lapsang Suchong – so too there are subtle intricacies in the rich and varied brew offered up to us by Carr & Kemmis.
