Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely! I have taken to wandering about after school looking for one simple object in it that might be romantic, or appalling even, but there is nothing. It is simply the most ordinary place in the world.

David Malouf, Johnno, St Lucia, UQP, 1975, p 51

Place of origin: 
St Lucia
Page number: 
51
Publisher: 
UQP
Location: 
Brisbane, QLD
Australia
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Date captured: 
1 October 2010
Date created: 
1 October 2010
Date issued: 
1 January 1975
Keywords:
authors, Brisbane, literature
Theme:
Imagination, Dreaming
Related: 
Literary mapping of Brisbane in the 1990s