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RECENTLY DAVID MALOUF commented of the Brisbane he recreated in Johnno:
It is a sobering thing, at just thirty, to have
outlived the landmarks of one's youth. And to have
seen them go, not in some violent cataclysm ... but
in the way of our generation, by Council ordinance
and by-law ... and land deals; in the name of order
and progress, and in contempt of all that is untidily
shabby and individual ...
[Weekend Australian, September 8-9]
In the memoir of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories of a City, he laments the changes that overtook his home city in the later twentieth century but at the same time he ...