Cirrus@Austlit

'It would have started the usual way, with a squabble over who got first go at hiding and who had to count. My older brother cam would have used his age to pull rank on me, and i would have complained that it wasn’t fair because i couldn’t get away with doing the same to our younger brother. at just two and a half years of age though, Robbie would have been too little to be left in charge of counting. Too little for counting, too little for seeking, too little for anything more than jumping out and exclaiming, “found you!” as though the very object of the game were to surprise the person who’d come looking for him by finding them first.' (Publication abstract)