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‘Before we had the word for brick, we had the word for stone, and with these we built, and built ourselves, our language, and never mind what was enjoyed along the way. We built through invasion and war, theft and murder, plague and sacking of empires, until our cities were graveyards, and our mouths were graveyards, and our speech is the speech of the dead.’