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Margaret Atwood: "Kami ingin ke sana lebih cepat. Dapatkan dimana? Dim...

"Kami ingin ke sana lebih cepat. Dapatkan dimana? Dimanapun kita tidak. Tetapi jiwa manusia hanya bisa melaju secepat manusia bisa berjalan, kata mereka dulu. Kalau begitu, di mana semua jiwa? Tertinggal. Mereka berkeliaran di sana-sini, perlahan, lampu redup berkelap-kelip di rawa-rawa di malam hari, mencari kami. Tapi mereka tidak cukup cepat, bukan untuk kita, kita jauh di depan mereka, mereka tidak akan pernah menyusul. Itu sebabnya kita bisa bertindak sangat cepat: jiwa kita tidak membebani kita."

--- Margaret Atwood

Versi Bahasa Inggris

We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.