We Are Not The Same Anymore by Chris Somerville

Author:Chris Somerville
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC029000
Publisher: uqp
Published: 2013-02-25T05:00:00+00:00

Loss

I’m going to try and keep this short. But, okay, there was once this explorer who has, by now, been mostly forgotten by history, and he lived with an indigenous tribe for a while. This was on the west coast of Tasmania, up north I think, near the top corner. The most interesting of his discoveries was this musical ritual that the tribe sometimes performed. What would happen was that one of the men would drag this drum out to the side of a waterhole and the tribe had worked out a way that if you hit the drum the sound travelled over the surface of the water, bounced off the rocks on the other side of the waterhole, then came back. An echo, yeah. So the sound would come back, and then they’d hit it again, letting the sound of the drum and the echo of the drum mix together. They’d have entire patterns memorised. Different patterns had different meanings. They had songs for rain, for sadness, for births. They had a song that was supposed to help you if you were having nightmares. Or if you were sick. Of course there’s no real evidence of this; the tribe was wiped out and there wasn’t much evidence of anything. Plus some people think the explorer made it all up, because there’s never been any proof that the indigenous people even used drums, but I thought you’d find it interesting, while we’re standing here, because I don’t know if you hate it, but I do, when the plane stops and there’s that clicking of seatbelts and everyone stands up in the aisle, but the doors aren’t open so we’re all just standing around here, sweating and getting angry.

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