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ImpossibleMusic_TXT_design.indd 3 11/4/19 12:02
28/3/19 3:35 pm
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For my sister, Christyna,
and Rachel, my sister in crime.
21 December
How?
Small word, big question. That’s what Mum says when
she’s too tired to answer properly. Only it’s not a small word
anymore, not for me.
‘How?’ in Australian sign language, a.k.a. Auslan, starts
with two palms held upward, one above the other. You slide
your hands apart to create a space between them, and they
stay facing up, empty – the idea being, I guess, for someone
to metaphorically fill them with knowledge. I think of it as a
shrugless huh?
It’s a big sign, then, rather than a small word, but the
question remains huge.
I think G knows that, which is why it’s taken her so long
to ask.
We’re sitting side by side in a corner of the campus that
most people avoid because it’s too noisy. Perhaps that’s what
drew us here. The first time I came to the University of
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