How do we feel now that Clive James has died? Empty, melancholy, left to think about his place in the world as a cosmopolitan Australian.
He went to Sydney University along with Germaine Greer, Les Murray, Robert Hughes, John Bell, Bruce Beresford and Madeleine St John, and experimented with pretentiousness as a way to survive his move from Kogarah to post-imperial intellectualism.
