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The manuscript arrived by courier in a sealed box. It was 340 pages, handwritten, in a script that resembled no known alphabet. The publisher's cover note read: 'Six weeks. We believe in you.'
Femi had translated seventeen languages in thirty years. He sat with the manuscript for two days before he noticed the repetitions — not of symbols, but of rhythms. The text had syntax. It was saying something.
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He wrote to the publisher: 'To translate this without its language is to replace it with my imagination. I can do that. …
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