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The returns
By Breyten Breytenbach, from an essay in his collection Intimate Stranger, to be published this month by Archipelago. Another collection, Notes from the Middle World, will be published this fall by Haymarket. Breytenbach’s essay “Obamandela” appeared in the March 2009 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
So what did I bring back from my trip to Berlin? First, a lake of black tiredness like a liquid mirror just below the horizon of wakefulness, threatening to rise at any moment and engulf me in dark oblivion. The Afrikaans word for jet lag is vlugvoos—to have been made spongy, perished, or rotten by flight. Then, a jumble of impressions.
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