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Chinatown​(​s)

by Dean Kyte

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In this atmospheric prose poem, writer Dean Kyte visits Melbourne’s Chinatown, meditating on its exotic mystery and romance.

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In whatever city Chinatown is located, these Chinese embassies are zones of mystery and ambiguity.

And the tragedy for the flâneur is that these places we know so well know us so little. We are erased from the faces of places as soon as we depart them. We are as unpermanent a mark upon the memory of their streets as a lover’s caress is upon our skin.

And for the flâneur, the Daygamer left over in the labyrinth whose streets are the dædal of his days, to re-encounter the coin de rue where he passed a moment of amour with some passante and to encounter no trace of her, nor of himself, evokes a sensation not of ‘déjà vu’, but of jamais vu—jamais vécu.

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released June 30, 2020
Dean Kyte: “Warburton lane drainpipe”

giddster: “Wind chimes » Wind chimes 1”
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jakobthiesen: “ Chinese Crowd.WAV”
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kwahmah_02: “shortwave radio » RadioChina1.wav”
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origin35: “Day One Ambiences - Eleysian Park and Chinatown » Chinatown - Street - Musician 3.aif”
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Sunbowl1946: “crying in a public bathroom.wav”
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Tanoseki: “Flinders and swanston.mp3”
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therabidfrog: “Rain Noise.mp3”
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Dean Kyte Melbourne, Australia

Dean Kyte is a writer, filmmaker and flâneur.

His CD of prose poetry and literary crime fiction, “The Spleen of Melbourne”, is available on BC.

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