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Dalia |
gathering on the edge of "foreign" cultures;
gathering on the half-life, half-light of foreign
tongues, or in the uncanny fluency of another's
language; gathering the signs of approval and
acceptance, degrees, discourses, disciplines;
gathering the memories of underdevelopment,
of other worlds lived retroactively; gathering the
past of a ritual of revival; gathering the present.
--Homi Bhabha
Such is your present removal from what you take to be your native land. For by nature there is no such thing as a native land, any more than there is by nature a house or farm or forge or surgery, as Ariston said; but in each case the thing becomes so, or rather is so named and called.
The modes of conspicuousness, obtrusiveness,
and obstinacy all have the function of bringing
to the fore the characteristic of occurrentness in
what is available.
Such is your present removal from what you take to be your native land. For by nature there is no such thing as a native land, any more than there is by nature a house or farm or forge or surgery, as Ariston said; but in each case the thing becomes so, or rather is so named and called.
--Plutarch
The modes of conspicuousness, obtrusiveness,
and obstinacy all have the function of bringing
to the fore the characteristic of occurrentness in
what is available.
--Martin Heidegger
Narcotics cannot still the tooth
That nibbles at the soul.
That nibbles at the soul.
--Emily Dickinson
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