Thanks, Arni
Australian cities are like islands. They are quite a distance from each
other and are very different to each other eg Melbourne is more like Bombay
than it is like Sydney, while Sydney would be closer to Seattle maybe,
though far more beautiful. Canberra is a land-locked island whose borders
bear an eerie similarity to the coastline of Western Samoa. I won't give you
a rundown on our other islands, eg Adelaide (the Isle of Man), Brisbane
(Alcatraz), Darwin (a drunken Singapore), Perth (?).
Best
Steve KK
On 25/10/03 8:17 AM, "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> on 10/24/03 10:07 PM, Stephen Kelen at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> Thanks, it was announced last week, I think. (News from Melbourne takes a
>> while to get to Canberra, if it gets here at all).
>
>
> Congratulations, Stephen, for whatever it is! Very appropriate, I'm sure!
> But your point about news travelling from Melbourne to Canberra makes me
> very curious, and curiously hopeful re my own situation. So Australian
> cities are veritable islands? If true, I'll never feel alone again up here
> in Iceland. And was it Keats who professed that 'no man was an iceland'? or
> was it 'island' Sorry, but the way we spell the name of our country in our
> own archaic lingo is 'Ísland'.
>
> Best
>
> Árni
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