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We follow the swing that the narrator took in “Bitter Orange” by the Lebanese writer Basma ElKhatib (Dar Al-Adab) as a deceptive, rotating place from which she appears to tell, between a backward jolt that overlooks a past in which the most painful thing is, and the most beautiful thing in it is almost absent, and a forward jolt
And I ask myself rhetorically,
Where am I in all this chaos?
In a moment of lucidity,
Or perhaps in a dream,
That will open a portal
To the true life.
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