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Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around like a Kool-Aid-stained ghost.
"Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?”
― Rick Riordan

Excerpt from Rick Riordan’s ‘The Son of Neptune’.

“I’ll have a vanilla… one of the vanilla bullshit things. You know, whatever you want, some vanilla bullshit latte, cappa thing. Whatever you got. I don’t care.” – Larry David.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
― William Shakespeare

Quote from ‘The Tempest’. Image of the window at Močan & Green Grout at NewActon precinct, drawn by Al Stark.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
― Wangari Maathai

Wangari Muta Maathai, Kenyan environmental and political activist. Image of Steven Siegel’s ‘Paper’ installation at NewActon precinct, Canberra.

Have not you yourselves sensed a difference in the light that suffuses such a room, a rare tranquility not found in ordinary light?
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Have you never felt a sort of fear in the face of the ageless, a fear that in that room you might lose all consciousness of the passage of time, that untold years might pass and upon emerging you should find you had grown old and gray?

Excerpt from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s ‘In Praise of Shadows’.
Image of Original room number 241 by Ross Honeysett.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Quote from ‘Journey to the End of the Night’ by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

Image of the Nishi building at dusk by Tom Roe.

I think I made you up inside my head.
— Sylvia Plath

I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Excerpt from ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song’ by Sylvia Plath.

Image of A. Baker wall at NewActon shot by Lee Grant.

I would rather run my hand down an old timber balustrade [... than] a shiny new looking steel balustrade any day. — Phill Rushby

Long before we made the connection between opulence and luxurious materials and the link with those luxury values in our minds, we were connected to raw, organic materials. It triggers something primal in you, even if you aren’t always aware of it. It’s like sitting in front of a fire, there is something about it beyond the warmth that makes you feel good.

Photo, Wee Jasper by Lee Grant.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling.

Quote from Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Bridge Builders’ (1893). The story (well the first half of the story) is a detailed description of the construction of a railway bridge across the Ganges in India.

This image is of the Grand stair at Hotel Hotel – a collaboration between Molonglo Group, March Studio and Oculus.

It was shot by Melbourne photographer Tom Roe.