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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?? (Fantastic Four, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, Vol. 1, No. 49, April 1966)  Christ have mercy on all sleeping things! From that dog rotting down Wrightson Road to when I was a dog on these streets; if loving these islands must be my load, out of corruption my soul takes wings, But they had started to poison my soul with their big house, big car, bit-time hbohl, coolie, nigger, Syrian, and French Creole, so I leave it for them and their carnival-- I taking a sea-bath, I gone down the road. I know these islands from Monos to Nassau, a rusty head sailor with sea-green eyes that they nickname Shabine, the patois for any red nigger, and I, Shabine, saw when these slums of empire was paradise. I'm just a red nigger who love the sea, I had a sound colonial education, I have Dutch, nigger, and English in me, and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation. (Derek Walcott)  | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles.  | |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. You wanna smoke? I might partake. Just a little though. I would not want to cloud my faculties.  “They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú–generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. Also called the fukú of the Admiral because the Admiral was both its midwife and one of its great European victims; despite “discovering” the New World the Admiral died miserable and syphilitic, hearing (dique) divine voices. In Santo Domingo, the Land He Loved Best (what Oscar, at the end, would call the Ground Zero of the New World), the Admiral’s very name has become synonymous with both kinds of fukú, little and large; to say his name aloud or even to hear it is to invite calamity on the heads of you and yours.”  | |
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Vanvittigt godt fortalt (og oversat) historie i et en den grad saftig blanding af dansk/spansk (med 6 siders ordliste, så du kan lære midst 10 synonymer på spansk for bl.a. pik, kusse, røv og luder). Komisk og tragisk mesterværk, som helt fortjent vandt Pulitzerprisen i 2008. (