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ak vás bavilo čítať Bachtina, toto budete milovať... malá ukážka autorovho mimoriadne "evokatívneho" štýlu:
Ultimately, the obsession with orifices and genital organs came to dominate Togolese popular laughter. But the same is also to be found in writings and speech in other Sub-Saharan countries. For example, the Congolese author, Sony Labou Tansi, repeatedly describes the "strong, delivering, thick thighs" and "the essential and bewitching ass" of girls not only in the context of his reflections on "the tropicalities of his Excellency" and on the ability of the latter to bring about a "digital orgasm," but also in his insistence on the irony involved in the momentary impotence of the autocrat's "natural member". (...)