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Book by Jamaica Kincaid · 3 quotes · Caribe, Colonialism, Columbus

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“I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it. Everyone I wrote to said how nice it was to hear from me, how nice it was to know I was doing well, that I was very much missed, and that they couldn't wait until the day came when I returned.”

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“I was born on an island, a very small island, twelve miles long and eight miles wide; yet when I left it at nineteen years of age I had never set foot on three-quarters of it. I had recently met someone who was born on the other side of the world from me but had visited this island on which my family had lived for generations; this person, a woman, had said to me, ‘What a beautiful place,’ and she named a village by the sea and then went on to describe a view that was unknown to me. At the time I was so ashamed I could hardly make a reply, for I had come to believe that people in my position in the world should know everything about the place they are from. I know this: it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain. He could not have known that he would have so many things to name, and I imagined how hard he had to rack his brain after he ran out of names honoring his benefactors, the saints he cherished, events important to him. A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.”

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“L'anima si ribella mentre gli occhi si chiudono. Il buio la inghiotte e niente disturba più il suo sonno. Voleva rispondere al bacio, voleva davvero farlo. Ma adesso non importa. Ora si gode la pace trovata. In quel limbo dov'è rinchiusa niente la turba, niente. E le paure scivolano via. Perdono consistenza, spariscono. Una pace artificiale l'ammanta e la stringe piano. La culla e le sussurra dolci parole placando la sua rabbia. Lucy rimane inerme tra le braccia di Nico che ancora la stringe. Oltre le palpebre chiuse un mondo fatto di foschia accarezza la sua mente stanca e provata. Lucy si lascia trasportare in quel vuoto. Grata di annullarsi e poter dimenticare. Lascia andare i suoi timori. Le sue ansie e i suoi tormenti. Tutto si confonde e tutto si trasforma. Adesso nulla è più come prima. Nemmeno i ricordi.”

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