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Magical Thinking, Coleridge and that Teenage Feeling
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
On the road between Portland and Hamilton, late afternoon with the rain sheeting down and everything outside the window green and spring, I had a moment where I thought ‘I have no home’. I could go forever like this, pushing through to the new, sampling the idiosyncrasies of small towns and leaving things behind in hotel rooms. It helps that Patrick is driving (beautifully). The workshops at Portland were well-attended – though nothing will outstrip Geelong where attendance was free and so massive – but I think the grey sky might have made me melancholy. Or perhaps it was because it was the middle of the week. Wednesday. The hump. Well, we’re over it now.
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