english: “From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked… but choosing one meant  losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped  to the ground at my feet.” In this passage from Sylvia Plath’s  "The Bell Jar," a young woman imagines  an uncertain future– and speaks to the universal fear of becoming paralyzed by the prospect of making  the wrong choice.
non_english: „Sa vrška svake grane, poput sočne purpurne smokve, pozivala je i namigivala čudesna budućnost... ali je odabiranje jedne podrazumevalo gubitak svih ostalih, i dok sam sedela tamo, nesposobna da se odlučim, smokve su počele da se smežuravaju i crne, i jedna po jedna su pljaskale o zemlju podno mojih nogu.” U ovom odlomku iz „Staklenog zvona” Silvije Plat, mlada žena zamišlja neizvesnu budućnost i izražava univerzalni strah od stanja paralisanosti zbog mogućnosti pravljenja pogrešnog izbora.