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This advertisement (Omnipresent in the magazines at the Embassy in Havana or on the
walls of small towns in France) was to bring me one my first experiences in linguistic
mestizaje. When pronounced with an English accenit obviously evoked a singer, whereas
the diction of my little classmates ( Sainiavre together with the aspect of the French verb
singer, to ape, made a baroque collage. like the meeting of a sewing machine and an
orangutan on lautréamont's dissecting table. To the point where today I still can't see
such a machine without juxtaposing a chorus of monkeys.
 

SINGER’S SEWING MACHINES,