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?
De jornais, livros, conversas, aprendi a falar sobre países como se eles fossem eternos, singulares, coisas que acontecem naturalmente, mas pensei: "dizer que venho de um país sugere que o país é absoluto, um ponto fixo no lugar e no tempo, uma coisa constante, mas será que é?"