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?
Nos jornais, nos livros, nas conversas, aprendi a falar de países como se fossem eternos, singulares, coisas que ocorrem naturalmente, mas interrogava-me: "Dizer que eu venho de um país "sugere que o país é uma coisa absoluta, "um lugar fixo no tempo e no espaço, "uma coisa constante, mas será assim?"