In 1967, Iris Murdoch tours here. “Australia seems all right. There is an awful lot of it. Every city seems to despise every other city. We got rather fond of little [Perth] which lives all by itself over on the West Coast. But have heard nothing but anti-Perth jokes since coming east (‘in the midst of life we are in Perth’ etc.’)” Alas, the pandemic has only exposed this latent parochialism. Or is it true of all countries? In the midst of life we are Minsk. Iris went to a writer’s conference there entitled ‘Why have we got no literature?’
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