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June 23, 2007
The ghosts of Adelaide's dead hopes and dreams can be seen in the torn posters on the back walls of the old buildings --there is a presence in what is missing:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, torn poster, Adelaide, 2007
A romantic melancholist would says that if all the city's 'positive life' had crumbled away, what is left in Adelaide must be either a negative life or a negation of life. Many who live in Sydney would agree without a second thought. 'Positive' life happens in Sydney not Adelaide. It's not even worthy of second thought. Not for those living in Adelaide though-their desires are haunted by what might have been.
Adelaide is yet to be haunted by global warming to accelerate the process of change and there is little sense that that the seaside on which they walk may well be consumed by the sea. Adelaide has yet to fight the war against the sea, even though the groynes and the stones on the beaches providing makeshift coastal defences that will only retard the process of erosion, not end it.
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What do you mean by positive life?
So much goes on in adelaide, I consider it to be a place in which thinking is celebrated. And the Arts. Is this what you mean by positive life? Unless I am mistaken, it seems to possess many communities of those who critically reflect on the world around them. I'm not sure that "positive" life is that which occurs in Sydney.
I didn't realise the extreme weather patterns were not manifest in Adelaide. Maybe I should move there.