A freer state of being

In search of a possible self

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  • Published 20250506
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We can’t get outside the aura. We’re part of the aura.
– Don DeLillo, White Noise

THE ROAD IS a serpent carving a path through the landscape, coaxing me from Brisbane towards my rural home town in south-west Queensland. The final hours of this drive are always the most arduous, the most dangerous. The novelty wears off, the twists and turns subside; I am left with nothing but a barren stretch of bitumen and my unfamiliar, glassy gaze reflected in the rear-view mirror, the eyes of a stranger I no longer recognise.

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