“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
“Only our voices
and gray strips of palm
like shining backs
of coleoptera,
atrocious
and suffering
under the infinite sun;
…”
Aliens on Safari, Africa
Source: Caterina Davinio, Aliens on Safari (Light from Hell), in AAVV, Dentro il mutamento, Rome, Fermenti, 2011. English translation by Caterina Davinio and David W. Seaman.
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