“On Melbourne summer mornings the green trams go rolling in stately progress down tunnels thick with leaves: the bright air carries along the avenue their patient chime, the chattering of their wheels”

—  Helen Garner, book Cosmo Cosmolino

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Cosmo Cosmolino (1992)

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