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Our minds are not hopeful, thought Janet; but our nerves are made of optimistic stuff.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
Out in deep space the planets sweep, inexorable, along their splendid orbits. Maxine bowed her head. From now on she would take the gods' dictation.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
'Crap,' said Janet. 'He was a whinger and he wrote it down. That's not poetry.'
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
Ideas came swarming through her, and like many people who labour in the obsession of solitude, she lacked the detachment to challenge them.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)
On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels
Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)