Ali Smith, There but for the
"It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence like: the girl ran across the park, and unless you add the describing word then the man or the girl are definitely not black, they are white, even though no one has mentioned white, like when you take the the out of a headline and people just assume it's there anyway. Though if it were a sentence about Brooke herself you'd have to add the equivalent describing word and that's how you'd know. The black girl ran across the park."
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"It makes Brooke feel strange in her stomach. It is like the feeling when she reads a book like the one about the man with the bomb, or thinks a sentence, just any old sentence like: the girl ran across the park, and unless you add the describing word then the man or the girl are definitely not black, they are white, even though no one has mentioned white, like when you take the the out of a headline and people just assume it's there anyway. Though if it were a sentence about Brooke herself you'd have to add the equivalent describing word and that's how you'd know. The black girl ran across the park."
"يشعر هذا بروك بغرابة في معدتها. إنه شعور يشبه ذاك الذي ينتابها حين تقرأ كتابًا كالكتاب الذي يتحدث عن الرجل الذي يحمل قنبلة، أو حين تفكر في جملة، أي جملة عادية مثل: ركضت الفتاة عبر الحديقة، وما لم تضف الكلمة الوصفية، فإن الرجل أو الفتاة ليسا أسودين بالتأكيد، بل هما أبيضان، حتى لو لم يذكر أحد كلمة أبيض، تمامًا كما لو حذفت "الـ" التعريف من عنوان رئيسي، فإن الناس يفترضون وجودها على أي حال. ومع ذلك، لو كانت الجملة تتحدث عن بروك نفسها، لكان عليك إضافة الكلمة الوصفية المقابلة، وهكذا كنت ستعرف. ركضت الفتاة السوداء عبر الحديقة."
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"And they all lived happily ever after, until they died."
Ali Smith, There but for the
"It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know."
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