Jhumpa Lahiri - Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time...

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Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Sicherlich ist es eine magische Sache für eine Handvoll Wörter, kunstvoll arrangiert, die Zeit anzuhalten. Einen Ort, eine Person, eine Situation in all ihren Besonderheiten und Dimensionen beschwören. Uns zu beeinflussen und uns zu verändern, so tief wie echte Menschen und Dinge.

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