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I'd had a glossary in a previous work and then I suddenly thought that a glossary is there for foreign languages, italics are there for foreign languages. I didn't want the Māori language to be treated as a foreign language in its own country.

— Patricia Grace

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Grace explaining why she did not include an English glossary for te reo Māori in her novel Potiki (1986).

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This first part of the story is about two sisters, Ngarua and Maraenohonoho, who quarrelled over a canoe.

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The city was a great loom weaving its tangles and tufts of people into haphazard multicoloured fabric.

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Sea washes. It cleans.
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