Like and unlike Hamlet, Makina is contradiction; ageless intellectual force yet feckless and indeterminately ageless. Circumstances sweep both away: while Makina lacks Hamlet’s legendary dithering, she maintains his ephemeral ability to simply vanish, which—in a Hamlet-analogue that is so good it seems planned—means she verses like no other. Take a moment, please, to hear from the voice of the translator:

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