Translating the printemps érable
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Rabble.ca's Maple Spring Coverage
June 18, 2012
Original French Text: https://www.facebook.com/notes/kim-doré/lettre-délise-turcotte-à-lendroit-du-premier-ministre/10150927469944705
Mister Premier,
I am writing to you today, to you, to your government, knowing in advance that the words of a writer don’t interest you, that you won’t read them since they have never and will never have any impact on the economic life of your country (pays). Your province, I should say. Which you are running in a rather strange way nowadays.
I am writing to you all the same, because I cannot do otherwise: the confusion, the anger, the disbelief that that I have been filled with for months is in the process of spoiling the language living in me, and because I can no longer pass this language off on fiction, or poetry (that will come back, don’t worry), I must empty my reservoir a little so that it doesn’t catch fire and burn me on the spot.
