writing about Melbourne

notes from MWF session on Melbourne and writing about melbourne (more notes in Moleskin diary):

"that richer, other Melbourne that exists between the pages of books or in painting or in film"...Michelle de K.

- that being just one of many statements by the writers on the night that fitted with my view of this self-referential trope of Melbourne's. to the extent that I'm a little worried that when my piece comes out in the paper, people (in particular the lecturer who I think may be a good prospect for a supervisor or mentor) may think I have pinched their ideas and words.

but it's in the zeitgeist, and the general agreement between where I'm hoping to go and where people seem already to be heading only made me more enthusiastic about this project.

other bits: the idea that an act by a person/character is mirrored by the landscape, in this case Nick Gadd's comments on the "toxic act" by a character that, like the toxic chemcials left in the soil by industry, comes back to haunt him years later.