Sublime

Margie sabía muy bien lo malo que era estar sola y no ser aceptada.

supplanted,

In his mind he was the protagonist of every story, the center of everyone’s appalling attention;

Al igual que Marta, no muchas personas en la República Dominicana tenían conciencia clara de que, además del Generalísimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, había un Presidente de mera apariencia para satisfacer las exigencias de una careta democrática de los gringos, de quienes el régimen trujillista era hijo putativo y con los que no se llevaba nada bien

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Pérez nodded thoughtfully. Even in a place like this where we are concerned with fundamental things the mind of the anglo is closed in this rare way. At one time I thought it was only his life of privilege. But it is not that. It is his mind. He sat back easily. He tapped his temple. It is not that he is stupid. It is that his picture of the world

(we make our own weather; personal gain ought to be a public asset)

pernicious

a semidiasporic postcolonial indeterminate like me