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[rm]

Went to Kings Cross which is crazy and pwoerful and reminds me of the street kids I hung out with in Italy. There's a plaza and a found at the bend in Darlinghurst road with signs pointing to all the great cities. New York City 16026 -->

Then I took a long and quasi-successful wander. Successful -- Darlinghurst, which involved a bit of tourism interesting probably only to me (and a few of you), which I'll report on when I know what I want to say about it. Funny how my magic places in all cities always have such perfectly situated benches though.

Then I tried to find NIDA, not by the route they gave me and a very bad map. This was a very bad idea and after walking miles was given up on. Tomorrow I'll take the bus they said and it will be fine.

More probably tomorrow night, or next time a phone post strikes me.

BTW, was playing phonetag with deslea not delchi and am seeing the first tonight.

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[ozfille]

I'm glad you made it and hope you enjoy your stay in Australia and your course at NIDA. It's always interesting to hear what others think of your home. Does our city seem so transient, insubstantial to you? I was interested in your emotional reaction to the place, perhaps in comparison to NYC there is less of a settled feel here. I know that we are a more outward looking culture than the US and there still is in a large part of the population (a third of it immigrants) sense of being separated from the rest of the world and there is always the tendency to compare ourselves to other places. We have less confidence in ourselves perhaps. It probably explains why so many Australians travel so much and so frequently.

Actually now that I think of it, every day when I walk to work I smile a little. The building I work in is the Education Department, one of the sandstone buildings along Bridge Street in the city. I approach it from the south along one of the angled streets and the sight of the building, (built maybe early part of the 20th Century) with a few tall palms out the front and surrounded by skyscrapers towering over it, reminds me of one of the Monty Python's surreal animations of this tiny Victorian stone building surrounded by tall buildings ready to float away and I have visions of us casting loose from the city and floating away above the towers and across the harbour.