Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell

Author:Nicolas Rothwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2016-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

But, for Lawrence, it was precisely the strangeness and the lack of context that was appealing, and the land had different accents. The flower blueness of the air, the foliage, the brown of the low rocks, the frail inconspicuousness of the landscape—all these seemed striking and beautiful to him, even though he knew very well that for the Australians he came into contact with during his stay such features were simply the unvarying carpet of the country, monotonous, devoid of associations, a vista they failed to see. Lawrence not only saw it. He saw something beyond, or behind, the landscape as well—something else.

It was virgin bush, and was as if unvisited, lost, sombre, with plenty of space, yet spreading grey for miles and miles, in a hollow towards the west. Far in the West, the sky having suddenly cleared, they saw the magical range of the Blue Mountains. And all this hoary space of bush between. The strange, as it were invisible beauty of Australia, which is undeniably there, but which seems to lurk just beyond the range of our white vision.

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