Ahdaf Soueif - In the Eye of the Sun (1992)

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I haven't come to you only to take, I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue, I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair, I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways

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You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like — Sartre and Camus and all that — they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not — mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell—

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