There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
“I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.”
“I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.”