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“Humanity’s elite were little girls. Humanity existed so that they could exist. ¶ Women and buffoons were crippled. Their bodies contained errors of construction that could inspire no other reaction but laughter. ¶ Only little girls were perfect. Nothing stuck out from their bodies, no grotesque appendages, no idiotic protuberances. They were of marvelous design, streamlined to present no resistance to life. ¶ Of no material utility, they were the most necessary of all because they embodied humanity’s beauty – its real beauty, that which makes living a summer breeze, where nothing clashes and the body is pure celebration from head to foot. One has to have been a little girl to know how exquisite it is to have a body.”

GirlsEnglish TranslationAndrew Wilson
Book:Le Sabotage amoureux
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“Even though English is the universal language of earth, due to its primitive colonial escapades, and indeed the most convenient, it is neither the most beautiful nor the most soulful language on earth.”

ColonialismEnglish LanguageEnglishLanguage LearningColonial HistoryLanguage BarrierLanguage StudiesColonial MentalityEnglish Translation
Book:Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
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“The war began in 1972. That was the year I awoke to a profound truth: no one on this earth is indispensable, except the enemy. ¶ Without an enemy, human beings are poor things indeed. Their lives are ordeals, crushed between insignificance and boredom. ¶ The enemy is the Savior. His mere existence is enough to revitalize humanity. Thanks to the enemy, that unfortunate accident called life becomes epic.”

WarEnemyEnglish TranslationAndrew Wilson
Book:Le Sabotage amoureux
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“…this story happened in China to the extent that it was permitted to do so—which is to say very little. ¶ It is a ghetto story, a tale of double exile: exile from our native country (which for me was Japan, since I was convinced that I was Japanese), and exile from China which surrounded us but from which we were cut off, by virtue of our status as profoundly unwanted guests. ¶ Make no mistake, however, in the end, China has the same weight in these pages as the Black Death had in Bocaccio’s Decameron: though hardly mentioned, it RAGES throughout.”

ChinaEnglish TranslationAndrew Wilson
Book:Le Sabotage amoureux
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“এতটা পুড়িনি আগে; সেইবারও জ্বেলেছিলে, মোমবাতি মনে ক'রে। আমিও চাদর ভেবে তোমাকে জড়িয়ে গায়, সারারাত কাটিয়েছি গঙ্গার ধারে। I haven't burned this much before; Even that time you lit (me) , Thinking of (me) as a candle. I too, thinking of you as a shawl, wrapped you around my body, (and) spent the whole night by the Ganges.”

BengaliBengali PoetryBengali PoetsEnglish Translation
Author:Mriganka Sekhar Ganguly
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