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NTS resident Phambinho presents audio selections from the An Việt Archives, the largest known archive of British-Vietnamese history.
“No beach, no matter what the island, can hold the waves,” taken from Wu Ming-Yi’s novel The Man with the Compound Eyes. This line oscillates between the obvious and the profound; there is duality and, at the same time, synchronicity between the opposites.
Yes, waves will continue to come to the shore time after time, and waves will return to the sea again and again. But each time, we stand there, waiting patiently for the waves to return every day.
Where the land meets the sea is the periphery, where the known meets the unknown. This unknown periphery can offer a space for us to wait in…
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