Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived.
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
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