Abstract
This essay examines natural and artificial signifiers in a tract of colonised land in south-east Australia. The essay asks how do country and human consciousness mingle to fashion each other in long processes of remembrance? How does the present loom out of the past across generations, ecologies and geographies, within communities formed by actively remembering individual psyches? Language is one of these ways. Therefore, the essay pays attention to the form of its writing.
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