Temporal setting: Circa 1937
Location notes:
The correlation is exact.
The Shrine of Remembrance is depicted as a lonely place, where lost souls – both the living and the dead – come to contemplate in silence. Fragments of the nearby city sneak in, however – the whine of trams, or the searchlight from a nearby tower that consistently invades the scene.
Quotes
A motor horn sounds faintly in the distance, and echo of the city. A searchlight from some distant tower flashes intermittently across the scene. The peculiar whine of an electric tram speeding swiftly on its way to or from the metropolis pierces like a poignant moon the silence of the night.
(p. 157)