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It’s Not Life without Movement

Monday, March 20, 2023

Neither the West nor East exists in essence. Both exist as “linguistic facts.”

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IN 1984, an essayist wrote: “The West has always made us restless.” A thing with unclear boundaries, a force that puts us at its feet, “And now still a place upon which we reflect.” A then-young man has continued to remember the essay’s imagery to this day, 40 years later. He quoted the essay by heart, almost verbatim: “West: mirror. We size ourselves up in front of it.”

The essayist was Goenawan Mohamad

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