ABSTRACT

Let's begin at the deep end, with a decontextualized piece of translated conversation:

What would make you decide to bring her back? — She must open her mouth and say, “They did this to me, they did this, and this.” In front of the Bukhensha family, in front of them! So that I know, so that their errors appear to my eyes too. Otherwise,… perhaps she is playing with me, and with them, with the both of us. That couldn't be.

(Dwyer 1982:161)