The Emigree Flashcards

Carol Rumens

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‘It may…’

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‘It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants’

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‘But I am…’

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‘But I am branded by an impression of sunlight’

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‘I left it…’

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‘I left it as a child but my memory of it is sunlight-clear’

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‘It tastes…’

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‘It tastes of sunlight’

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‘but my city…’

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‘but my city comes to me in its own white plane. It lies down in front of me, docile as paper’

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‘My city takes…’

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‘My city takes me dancing through the city of walls’

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‘They mutter…’

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‘They mutter death, and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.’

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