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"Reading this Australia Day weekend otherwise known as "Invasion Day". Jan 26th 2025. I like to read something by an Indigenous writer to commemorate the day" — Jan 23, 2025 04:13PM
"Reading this Australia Day weekend otherwise known as "Invasion Day". Jan 26th 2025. I like to read something by an Indigenous writer to commemorate the day" — Jan 23, 2025 04:13PM


“To mourn a lost friend, however, is not the same as wishing for another.”
― North Woods
― North Woods

“Though I tried to be honest, it was still happening and so it was dishonest. That鈥檚 what I couldn鈥檛 see then that I see now, that though it happened then it鈥檚 still happening now and it won鈥檛 ever stop happening, and that writing about it, that writing about anything, can鈥檛 be an opinion about what happened as if it had already happened when it is still happening, still unintelligible, still mysterious, and all writing is trapped in tenses when life isn鈥檛.”
― Question 7
― Question 7

“the only way to understand the world as something other than a tale of loss is to see it as a tale of change.”
― North Woods
― North Woods

“Anyone questioning whether god exists need only consider the brevity of a dog鈥檚 life span. If there was a god, let alone a benevolent one, dogs would have life spans similar to parrots.”
― Beautyland
― Beautyland

“What remained was either silence or lies. Such as: the convicts and their children had all fled to the mainland during the gold rushes. Such as: the Tasmanian Aboriginal people were extinct, long gone, not one left on the island. Such as: everyone was descended from free settlers, not a touch of the tar brush or the convict stain on any of us.”
― Question 7
― Question 7

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