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Die gebeugten Nacken, verbogenen Kreuze, gekrümmten Rücken und schiefen Beine, all die Sorgen und Geschichten der Landsleute waren Ausläufer seines eigenen Körpers. Weil er fühlte, daß alle Gesichter sein Gesicht, aller Verzweiflung seine Verzweiflung war, wollte er die näher kommenden, höchst lebendigen Puppen nicht sehen, ihnen nicht ins Auge schauen müssen, doch wie jemand, der sich nicht von seinem Zwilling trennen kann, so war er nicht imstande, seinen Blick von ihnen zu lösen.
It was as if their bowed heads, bent spines, hunched backs, and crooked legs were extensions of his own body. Their faces were his face, their despair was his despair; they seemed to be inching toward him, and Galip did not want to look at them, did not dare to look them in the eye, but he could no more resist them than he could tear himself away from an identical twin.
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