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Two Cities
Parramatta: A Dictionary of Place and Memory - T
In one version of the city, we don’t have a TV and we desperately want one because that’s what’s found in every room in every home in the East. This TV-lessness is a sign of our impoverishment and lack, and we too want to convert the home so there is a TV on every wall.
In the second version, life is not found in a TV. It is a library, a book or pen. To have had a TV at a formative age would have altered the dreaming and we might have ended up fishing for the imagination in a pond rather than an ocean that is so grand.