Marrow moulded I raised the scalpel to make the first cut into that crenulated piece of flesh and found I couldn’t do it. Here before me was the brain of a sheep, nothing more than a hunk of meat, but I couldn’t help think of sheepy thoughts locked inside those dead cells as though they were exhibits in a museum. Year nine science class, and the brain sat on the desk in front of us on a chopping board—similar to the white plastic one we had in our kitchen at home. It was pinky-grey, a dead sort of colour, mottled […]
Seeing the Criminal for the Crime
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Too Little, Too Much
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Pure Reaction
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What Does the Pell Verdict Mean for Child Sexual Abuse Victims?
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Projected Darkness
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No Pets, but Surrounded by Animals
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Connecting Flights
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Walking Maps of Bruny Island
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A Tale of Four Ludicrous Deaths
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Australia in Three Books
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A Self-Governing Literature
Who Owns the Map of the World? The imaginative literary mind is as boundless as it is borderless and bountiful in its way, finding ways of powerfully creating anew the already imagined with the unimagined or unimaginable. Possibly George Orwell had thought something like this when he explained that the imagination was like certain wild animals that do not breed in captivity, and that writers who denied this fact were in effect demanding their own destruction.[1] The dreamlike state of imagining is continuously curious while it shifts and reshapes its positioning and influences. But imagination is never alone. There is […]
