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SAUDADE

Suneeta Peres da Costa

Dedication

For Mridula Nath Chakraborty

The imagination is always united with a desire, that is to say a value. Only desire without an object is empty of imagination. There is the real presence of God in everything which imagination does not veil. The beautiful takes our desire captive and empties it of its object, giving it an object which is present and thus forbidding it to fly off towards the future.

—Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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Chapter 1

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