an idle fellow

A finitely presented module is an A-module M given by a finite number of generators and relations. Therefore it is a module with a finite generator set having a finitely generated syzygy module.

So began my career as our family’s official interpreter. From then on, I would fill in our blanks, our silences, stutters, whenever I could. I code switched. I took off our language and wore my English, like a mask, so that others would see my face, and therefore yours.

Sufficient to say that he alternized cold mutton and toddy, narration and exclamation, eating, drinking, exposition and swearing, in a way that convinced me what he asserted was true — that his domestic felicity was forever destroyed.