… I’m thinking structures. I’ve always taken it for granted that in literary writing content and form are intertwined, one. Now I’m examining my belief. Iain says that the writer is a person who finds, rather than makes, structures. “I began to see the pattern of the living city in myth,” he tells me. “If you look, you can see the structures that lie underneath.”
“Is this how we write? By seeing? By finding?” “I think so.”
“Then, to write an epic is to see the structure of one’s city or of one’s life as epic?” …
Extracted from: Ian Sinclair an Interview with Kathy Acker in – ‘Writing as Magic in London in Its Summer: Iain Sinclair and the Crafting of Place.’
Read the full interview at: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-4-issue-3-summer-2009/writing-as-magic-in-london-in-its-summer/
Opposite Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar on the Corner of Bourke Street and Crossley Street lays one of my favorite Melbourne bookshops – The Paperback Bookshop – a Melbourne icon established in the early 1960s.
Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar is a Melbourne cultural icon and is said to have installed the first espresso machine imported into Australia in the 1950s – ushering in a generational obsession with espresso coffee among Melbournians from all walks of life. A good short review of Pellegrini’s can be found at: 
Stencil Art, Centre Place (2007) – Melbourne Street Art and Graffiti © All images Marcus D. Niski 2007-2017. Copyright in all original works remains with the individual creators.
Graffiti Art, Hosier Lane (2007) Melbourne Street Art and Graffiti © All images Marcus D. Niski 2007-2017. Copyright in all original works remains with the individual creators.
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