...The responsibility, the burden, is much heavier for us. If we don't exercise our collective imagination-and not just documentation -we'll always be at a certain disadvantage. I think what literature could provide us with is showing other possibilities. What I fear most is homogeneity. (Rawi Hage)

...The responsibility, the burden, is much heavier for us. If we don't exercise our collective imagination-and not just documentation -we'll always be at a certain disadvantage. I think what literature could provide us with is showing other possibilities. What I fear most is homogeneity.

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