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The Play of Days: contemplating play through motherhood by Julienne van Loon, Ways of Seeing: Griffith REVIEW #31
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On books and “the conditions of reading”:
“Soon, we are told, we will call up on “bookscreens” any “text” on demand, and we will be able to change its appearance, ask questions of it, “interact” with it… This is the glorious future being created, and promised to us, as something more “democratic.” Of course, it means nothing less than the death of inwardness—and of the book.”
Susan Sontag, ‘A Letter to Borges’, first published in Spanish in 1996, later translated into English.
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Joseph Conrad (a favourite of mine) on Circular Quay:
“…one of the finest, most beautiful, vast, and safe bays the sun ever shone upon.”
(His account of Sydney was first published in 1905 and later included in ‘The Mirror Of The Sea’ (1906))
