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Reading a book, The Happy Isles of Oceania, and this just kind of made me think of past, present, future and all:

Many people told me how European-looking [Melbourne] was...I didn't think so. It was more spacious, much younger, and had more of the aspect of a city in the American Midwest. European cities have a damaged and repaired look. Melbourne's most American feature was that it was obviously a city that had never been bombed.