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The Art of Attention
Bengali is interesting as a language in that there's a lot of flexibility about word order. That given, at least in sort of the more older form of Bengali the inheritance of Sanskrit that you have a lot of a metrical games you can play with. So I am very interested in the sound of the line itself and I think something that I had to do first, unteach myself when I came to fiction was an over a lion's on the sound ofThe importance of sound are very deep in me. And so this this notion of Bengali is really kind of an oral tradition of those poems, hearing, for example, cause else in an audience with 2000 people, and
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