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When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

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Frequency Parenthesis of Alca's Testimony

The or is interesting because if I'm reading names correctly, Navros Modi would have been neither a Patel nor somebody who wore a dot on their forehead. The poem itself defines an abstraction and yet it's directly connected to a very specific act of violence. Tim: Your job is to explain why Alca's testimony would be a definition, two different ones of frequency.

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