Words Without Borders. The World Through the Eyes of Writers: An Anthology, Edited by Samantha Schnee, Alane Salierno Mason, and Dedi Felman, Introduction by Andre Dubus III, Anchor Books, New York, NY, 2007 [City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, CA]
Authors:
Ma Jian ('Where Are You Running To?', Introduced by Jonathan Safran Foer, Translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew);
Can Xue ('Meteorite Mountain', Introduced by Ha Jin, Translated from the Chinese by Zhu Hong);
Jo Kyung-ran ('Looking for the Elephant', Introduced by Don Lee, Translated from the Korean by Heinz Insu Fenkl);
Seno Gumira Ajidarma ('Children of the Sky', Introduced by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Translated from the Indonesian by John H. McGlynn);
Parashuram ('The Scripture Read Backward', Introduced by Amit Chaudhuri, Translated from the Bengali by Sukanta Chaudhuri);
Goli Taraghi ('The Unfinished Game', Introduced by Francine Prose, Translated from the Persian by Zara Houshmand);
Jabbar Yassin Hussin ('The Day in Buenos Aires', Introduced by Alberto Manguel, Translated from the Arabic by Randa Jarrar);
Sania Saleh ('Two Poems', Introduced by Adonis, Translatedfrom the Arabic by Issa J. Boullata);
Adania Shibli ('Faint Hints of Tranquility', Introduced by Anton Shammas, Translated from the Arabic by Anton Shammas);
Hassan Khader, ('Shards of Reality and Glass', Introduced by Ahdaf Soueif, Translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif);
Gamal al-Ghitani ('A Drowsy Haze', Introduced by Naguib Mahfouz, Translated from the Arabic by William Maynard Hutchins);
Akinwumi Isola ('The Uses of English', Introduced by Wole Soyinka, Translated from the Yoruba by Akinwumi Isola);
Gabriela Adameșteanu (from 'Provisional', Introduced by Norman Manea, Translated from the Romanian by Carrie Messenger);
Senadin Musabegović, ('Two Poems', Introduced by Aleksandar Hemon, Translated from the Bosnian by Ulvija Tanović);
Giorgio Manganelli (from 'Experiment with India', Introduced by Roberto Calasso, Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein);
Eleonora Hummel (from 'The Fish of Berlin', Introduced by Günter Grass, Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky);
Bronisław Maj ('Seven Poems', Introduced by the Editors, Translated by Clare Cavanagh);
Myriam Anissimov (from 'His Majesty, Almighty Death', Introduced by Cynthia Ozick, Translated from the French by C. Dickson);
Etel Adnan (from 'October 27, 2003', Introduced by Diana Abu Jaber, Translated from the French by C. Dickson with Etel Adnan);
Johan Harstad ('Vietnam. Thursday.', Introduced by Heidi Julavits, Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik);
Juan Villoro ('Lightweight Champ', Introduced by Javier Marías, Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman);
Mario Bellatin ('The Sheika's Condition', Introduced by Francisco Goldman, Translated from the Spanish by Cindy Schuster);
Ámbar Past ('When I Was a Man', Introduced by Elena Poniatowska, Translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee);
Horacio Castellanos Moya (from 'Revulsion', Introduced by Roberto Bolaño, Translated from the Spanish by Beatriz Cortez);
Évelyne Trouillot ('The Chareron Inheritance', Introduced by Edwidge Danticat, Translated from the French by Avriel Goldberger);
Marcela Sola (from 'Kind's Silence', Introduced by Luisa Valenzuela, Translated from the Spanish by Tobias Hecht);
Juan José Saer ('Baked Mud', Introduced by José Saramago, Translated from the Spanish by Sergio Waisman);
Juan Forn ('Swimming at Night', Introduced by Ariel Dorfman, Translated from the Spanish by Marina Harss).
Just came home from a dinner party with the friendgroup at which several people kept saying "Ask Pedro" or "Pedro will know" and I was terrified that they were referring to an AI like Claude but no, thank fuck, they were referring to a cardboard cutout of Pedro Pascal that someone left upstairs and who has been designated a kind of patron saint status in the household.
Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.
Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.
That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.
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