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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Whale Song
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'The cold shock is only slightly allayed by the wetsuit clinging to my body as I jump off the metal steps into the frigid ocean, but the pleasure of it trumps the pain. I take a few jagged breaths through my snorkel and feel my muscles immediately tighten as the blood in my limbs rushes from my extremities to my core. A shiver works its way from the base of my neck down my spine. There’s a splash behind me as Madhavi jumps in.' (Introduction) 

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    y separately published work icon Meanjin Online 2022 23920292 2022 periodical issue 2022
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    y separately published work icon Meanjin vol. 81 no. 3 September 2022 25509606 2022 periodical issue 'We saw images recently that captured light from a moment 13 billion years ago. A thing of wonders. Minds turned to the deepest of time, the origins of our universe, and perhaps to that moment before the sudden creation of an infinity of something from an endless expanse of nothing. Or was that big bang the final decaying and thus creating moment of a previous infinity of something? Our minds can tiptoe around these ideas, but never quite land in a recognisable space between them. But maybe that is their beauty, the tantalising possibility of utter unknowability.' (Jonathan Green, Editorial introduction) 2022 pg. 12-15
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