Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, “I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is.””Say it in your language to your peers,” I urge.Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. “He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed.”Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.

Gjerji raises his hand. In English he says, “I like to tell in the words of a great American philosopher what freedom is.””Say it in your language to your peers,” I urge.Gyerji makes his statement. The class grows silent and thoughtful; there is much nodding. Twain perhaps? Emerson? Diana sidles up and whispers in my ear. “He says to them that freedom is a word when nothing is anymore able to be losed.”Janis Joplin, de-syntaxed.

– Laura Kelly –

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

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