Arundhati Roy: "Ketika dia memperhatikannya, dia memahami kualitas kec...

"Ketika dia memperhatikannya, dia memahami kualitas kecantikannya. Bagaimana jerih payahnya membentuknya. Bagaimana kayu yang ia buat telah membuatnya. Setiap papan yang dia rencanakan, setiap paku yang dia kendarai, setiap benda yang dia buat membentuknya. Telah meninggalkan cap padanya. Telah memberinya kekuatan, anugerah yang luwes."

--- Arundhati Roy

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As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.