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  • The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

    Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP