From newspapers, textbooks, conversations, I had learned to speak of countries as if they were eternal, singular, naturally occurring things, but I wondered: to say that I came from a country suggested that the country was an absolute, some fixed point in place in time, a constant thing, but was it?
A partir de periódicos, libros de texto, conversaciones, había aprendido a hablar de países como si fueran eternos, singulares, cosas que ocurren naturalmente, pero me pregunté: Decir que vine de un país sugiere que el país era un punto absoluto fijo en el espacio y el tiempo, algo constante, ¿pero lo era?