Editor's note: Ross Gibson builds a literary bridge between two Sydney publications that appeared at the time of the building of the Harbour Bridge and ponders the fate of Sydney in the light of their visions.
The two publications referred to are the literary magazine Vision and Frank Cash's account of the building of the bridge, Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge: Setting Forth the Preparation for, and Progressive Growth of, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to April 1930.