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Chinua Achebe: ""Kamu terdengar seperti mempertanyakan otoritas d...

""Kamu terdengar seperti mempertanyakan otoritas dan keputusan Oracle, yang mengatakan dia harus mati." "Aku tidak. Kenapa harus? Tapi Oracle tidak memintaku untuk mengambil keputusan." [...] "Bumi tidak bisa menghukum saya karena mematuhi pesannya," kata Okonkwo. "Jari-jari anak tidak tersiram air panas oleh sepotong ubi panas yang diletakkan ibunya di telapak tangannya.""

--- Chinua Achebe

Versi Bahasa Inggris

"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."