“The Empire Pool” Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 5, (Spring, 2013)
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And so for the remaining two hours of the meeting, Mr. Delgado and I sat in the front and directed the discussion. Or rather he directed it and I pretended I had an equal voice. A pattern quickly emerged in which my words would be greeted by silence and chilly looks; then Mr. Delgado would rephrase what I had said, as if interpreting from female to male language, with the added weight of an American accent.

— Andrea Lewis (writer)

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And so for the remaining two hours of the meeting, Mr. Delgado and I sat in the front and directed the discussion. Or rather he directed it and I pretended I had an equal voice. A pattern quickly emerged in which my words would be greeted by silence and chilly looks; then Mr. Delgado would rephrase what I had said, as if interpreting from female to male language, with the added weight of an American accent." in the context of "“The Empire Pool” Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 5, (Spring, 2013)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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About Andrea Lewis (writer)

Andrea Lewis is an American writer. She was Microsoft's first technical writer and is one of three co-founders of Richard Hugo House, a literary arts center in Seattle.