p. 277 \u201cAustralia is still Australia. I am faithful to her in every bone and fibre. When I think of her an impression of dazzling wealth flashes across my brain, and an intoxicating odour of gumtrees steals powerfully over my senses, and I grow dizzy with happiness at the sight and scent of my country. But London is stronger. London drives out the gums. London hangs pictures , and plays, and cathedrals, and operas, and intellects all over the Bush and the dazzling gold. And I say to myself, in unmistakeable language, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go back It\u2019s so far, far away. It\u2019s the other end of the world. I don\u2019t want to go back yet.\u2019<\/p>\n
It is not only the Londoness of London that has me prisoner. It is its nearness to other places. Can you understand that it is a few hours <\/em>to Paris, to Holland, to Ireland and to Scotland. I could not believe it at first. Think of this. I can get to Greece \u2013 yes, there really is a place called Greece \u2013 more quickly than you can get to Perth\u2026.<\/p>\n P. 279 \u201cgo back to Australia, and the whole world vanishes, like a dream, and becomes, after a time, only a dream again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" p. 277 \u201cAustralia is still Australia. I am faithful to her in every bone and fibre. When I think of her an impression of dazzling wealth flashes across my brain, and an intoxicating odour of gumtrees steals powerfully over my senses, and I grow dizzy with happiness at the sight and scent of my country. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-history","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4790,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}