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'It is the landscape, ultimately, that witnesses the leaving of home, and it is the memory of such landscape that makes us ache when recalling home. Geography owns us, but we too often deceive it. If we believe that we come from ‘country’, is leaving a denial, a betrayal? Is it possible that the costs of such infidelity might be higher for women?' -- from the first paragraph of the article.
Notes
Epigraph: i Leaving a town It is important to go In the early morning
Pre-dawn light Touches the harbour Between the houses...
It is all and alone his Who shoulders his bag And turns towards the bus-station...
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/99682/20110519-0001/dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2328/8207/1/Hunting%20Flowers.pdfHunting Flowers : Home and Its Poetic DeceitsTransnational Literature