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“Most of the people who emigrated to America went as nobodies and their subsequent history, and therefore the history of America, is the history of their attempts to become somebodies.”

It seems monstrous, a thing that should never have been possible, for grass to possess such power. It is against all the laws of nature that grass should threaten the life of the planet. How could a plant meant to creep, to be crushed underfoot, grow so arrogant, so destructive?

“You’re totally insane, little man,” she cried, “I’m not interested—here in a bed like this, like a housewife and mother!”

Orientalism was ultimately a political vision of reality whose structure promoted the difference between the familiar: Europe, the West, us, and the strange: the Orient, the East, them.