She raises a finger Excuse me teacher! If the holy cow1 slips tin roofs falling over under lots of iron beams would we always die? the teacher a tremour slipping down his face pulled the pocket bottoms off his hands and heavens fell down on the Nth class crushed benches lessons fallen from children's hands and the walls what dreams they harboured for the inhabitants except for a hand that appeared out of the rubble rose the sound of a finger! Excuse me Sir! May I get up!?
—Ali Abdolrezaei
Translated into English by Abol Froushan.
1According to an ancient Persian Myth of Creation, the earth rotates on the horn of a bull. Legend had it that if the bull coughed, the earth would slip off its horn, causing an earthquake.
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