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Geraldine Brooks: "Sepanjang waktu, berkali-kali, saya terpaksa mengga...

"Sepanjang waktu, berkali-kali, saya terpaksa menggagalkan dan menahan sifat saya sendiri yang tampaknya berkumpul bersama saat itu, di koridor yang panas dan suram itu. Aku mendengar suara deras di kepalaku dan merasakan tekanan di payudaraku, seperti genangan air naik di belakang tanggul tipis. Sebelum saya tahu saya melakukannya, mangkuk sup naik di tangan saya seolah-olah terangkat oleh kekuatan gaib. Kemudian, isinya yang berwarna abu-abu mengalir di wajah gemuk perawat itu."

--- Geraldine Brooks

Versi Bahasa Inggris

All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather together then, in that hot and dismal corridor. I heard a rushing sound in my head and felt a pressure in my breast, like floodwaters rising behind a flimsy dike. Before I knew I did it, the soup bowl was rising in my hand as if elevated by some supernatural force. Then, its yellow-gray contents were running down the nurse's pudgy face.