Babel

Loss just meant a lack, meant something was missing, but it did not encompass the totality of this severance

History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit.

English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.