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“I felt emptied of all forms of energy. I felt the type of fatigue that one feels only with one’s family, through contact with parents or with brothers and sisters, and I said that I was tired, really really tired, I needed to go to sleep; I stretched out my arms to emphasize my words.”

“Two things were happening. The first was that all around us, we still thought a woman was the solution to a man's instability. As with all beliefs, it was constantly contradicted by reality but still it persisted.”

“What would a book composed exclusively of that language look like? If this language exists in the world, can it, or should it, exist in books, or should books mark a distance between the language of the world and that of their own? In hiding the existence of this language would I not be hiding the lives of men like my brother?”