From newspapers, textbooks, conversations, I had learned to speak of countries as if they were eternal, singular, naturally occurring things, but I wondered: to say that I came from a country suggested that the country was an absolute, some fixed point in place in time, a constant thing, but was it?
Iz novina, udžbenika, razgovora, naučila sam govoriti o zemljama kao da su one vječne, jedinstvene stvari koje nastaju prirodnim putem, ali sam se pitala: ako kažem da sam došla iz neke zemlje sugerira da je zemlja apsolutna, fiksna točka u određenom vremenu, konstanta, no je li zaista?