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<poem>
'''अँग्रेज़ी से अनुवाद : अनिल जनविजय'''
'''लीजिए, अब यही कविता मूल अँग्रेज़ी में पढ़िए'''
Virginia Woolf's
With Anticipation
This is an incredible place: oppressive
and red in its intensity.
Every moment in this abolished world
is unreal. Light glares its hostility
and metal flowers quiver with cold.
I do not have a normal body
here; I have lost the appearance of
somebody whole and only feel
a prickly blankness. This morbid place
sharpens my indifference—so I cut
people open with a knife-blade
to see a flash of their wavering
being, to see them
undergo transformation. I know
now that there is extraordinary
pleasure in cruelty.
</poem>