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THE WRITERS POST (ISSN: 1527-5467) VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2 JUL 2005
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GYANG ANH IEN _______________________________ QUESTION Translated by Do Vinh Two
women sitting still weaving
nets ask each other about
a thing called fate. “Is it
true that
death is decided in heaven?”
The first was woman looked
to the sea, where the
tsunami was moving at
the speed of a jet plane
that had just flown by to
some unknown destination across
the sky with two
women below sitting
still weaving nets asking
each other about a thing called fate. “No
way, for example, if
a thousand people at a time
could die of earthquake, flood, or fire, then
their fate could
not be all the same?” The second was woman smiled, and looked out to the sea
where the tsunami was
moving quietly, deep
in the ocean at
a high speed faster than the
two women who were sitting
still weaving nets asking
each other about
a thing called fate. TRANSLATED BY
DO VINH The Writers Post &
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