I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
“A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?”
“But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.”