Epigraphs:
'The oldest languages of all must have been the highly synthetic -- verb-forms and noun-forms of great length.' Anthony Burgess, Language Made Plain, 1964
'Wangq: to speak, to say...'. Hazel Brown, Noongar language speaker.
'Stories Without End includes writing that is complex, innovative, and polished, and writing that is raw, rugged, and passionate. In their different ways, all the pieces are powerful...' (Source: editorial, Southerly Vol. 62 No. 2 2002: 5-6)
2002 pg. 98-99