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Senior Editor's Note

This issue, our second last as PULP 4, we became obsessed with the notion of 'pearls of time', reflecting upon ever-flowing currents in our waters.

From the dissection of the sneaker loafer, to musings on the funerary urn, each piece was selected to entice you (yes, you) to think about the things that convey the elusive speeds at which time ebbs and flows in our world.

All this talk of beginnings and endings has outlined the elephant in the room: our time as PULP 4 is slowly coming to an end. I would like to savour each moment with grace, but unfortunately I am a human, which means that instead, I will probably run around like a headless chicken until our very last launch party draws to a close at the end of May. Nevertheless, I will have enjoyed every moment.

Fashion trends, rituals of death, the water lapping against the wharves at popular fishing spots, psychics (inaccurately) predicting the future.

Does heaven exist?

Does hell?

Who knows.

Until then, come to our launch parties, chat to us in the office, and devour this wonderful issue!

Sasha

PULP is established on the sovereign land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past and present, as well as Indigenous members of our creative community.

We respect the knowledge and customs that traditional Elders and Aboriginal People have passed down, from generation to generation.

We acknowledge the historical and continued violence and dispossession against First Nations Peoples. 'Australia' and its many institutions, including this University, are founded on the very same violence and dispossession. As editors, we will always stand in solidarity with First Nations led processes of decolonisation, reflected in the substance and practice of this magazine.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.