We have been here more than a hundred years, we have reclaimed land from the desert and built irrigation… — J. M. Coetzee
We have been here more than a hundred years, we have reclaimed land from the desert and built irrigation works and planted fields and built solid homes and put a wall around our town, but they still think of us as visitors, transients.
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