



سيكون الضوء بعيدا و تبتعدين
بين أرق الوحدة
و ألق عينيك
يُولد وطن
فلا تخافي
إذا تأخر الليل بالرحيل...
ليل وحيد غريب
أما النهارات الدافئة
ستكون كلها
لكٍ
لكِ
لكِ


by the inspiring Walter Horatio Pater
Diaphaneite
THERE are some unworldly types of character which the world is able to estimate. It recognises certain moral types, or categories, and regards whatever falls within them as having a right to exist. The saint, the artist, even the speculative thinker, out of the world’s order as they are, yet work, so far as they work at all, in and by means of the main current of the world’s energy. Often it gives them late, or scanty, or mistaken acknowledgment; still it has room for them in its scheme of life, a place made ready for them in its affections. It is also patient of doctrinaires of every degree of littleness. As if dimly conscious of some great sickness and weariness of heart in itself, it turns readily to those who theorise about its unsoundness. To constitute one of these categories, or types, a breadth and generality of character is required. There is another type of character, which is not broad and general, rare, precious above all to the artist, a character which seems to have been the supreme moral charm in the Beatrice of the [248] Commedia. It does not take the eye by breadth of colour; rather it is that fine edge of light, where the elements of our moral nature refine themselves to the burning point. It crosses rather than follows the main current of the world’s life. The world has no sense fine enough for those evanescent shades, which fill up the blanks between contrasted types of character–delicate provision in the organisation of the moral world for the transmission to every part of it of the life quickened at single points! For this nature there is no place ready in its affections. This colourless, unclassified purity of life it can neither use for its service, nor contemplate as an ideal.
“Sibi unitus et simplificatus esse,” that is the long struggle of the Imitatio Christi. The spirit which it forms is the very opposite of that which regards life as a game of skill, and values things and persons as marks or counters of something to be gained, or achieved, beyond them. It seeks to value everything at its eternal worth, not adding to it, or taking from it, the amount of influence it may have for or against its own special scheme of life. It is the spirit that sees external circumstances as they are, its own power and tendencies as they are, and realises the given conditions of its life, not disquieted by the desire for change, or the preference of one part in life rather than another, or passion, or opinion. The character we mean to indicate achieves this [249] perfect life by a happy gift of nature, without any struggle at all. Not the saint only, the artist also, and the speculative thinker, confused, jarred, disintegrated in the world, as sometimes they inevitably are, aspire for this simplicity to the last. The struggle of this aspiration with a lower practical aim in the mind of Savonarola has been subtly traced by the author of Romola. As language, expression, is the function of intellect, as art, the supreme expression, is the highest product of intellect, so this desire for simplicity is a kind of indirect self- assertion of the intellectual part of such natures. Simplicity in purpose and act is a kind of determinate expression in dexterous outline of one’s personality. It is a kind of moral expressiveness; there is an intellectual triumph implied in it. Such a simplicity is characteristic of the repose of perfect intellectual culture. The artist and he who has treated life in the spirit of art desires only to be shown to the world as he really is; as he comes nearer and nearer to perfection, the veil of an outer life not simply expressive of the inward becomes thinner and thinner. This intellectual throne is rarely won. Like the religious life, it is a paradox in the world, denying the first conditions of man’s ordinary existence, cutting obliquely the spontaneous order of things. But the character we have before us is a kind of prophecy of this repose and simplicity, coming as it were in the order of grace, not of nature, by [250] some happy gift, or accident of birth or constitution, showing that it is indeed within the limits of man’s destiny. Like all the higher forms of inward life this character is a subtle blending and interpenetration of intellectual, moral and spiritual elements. But it is as a phase of intellect, of culture, that it is most striking and forcible. It is a mind of taste lighted up by some spiritual ray within. What is meant by taste is an imperfect intellectual state; it is but a sterile kind of culture. It is the mental attitude, the intellectual manner of perfect culture, assumed by a happy instinct. Its beautiful way of handling everything that appeals to the senses and the intellect is really directed by the laws of the higher intellectual life, but while culture is able to trace those laws, mere taste is unaware of them. In the character before us, taste, without ceasing to be instructive, is far more than a mental attitude or manner. A magnificent intellectual force is latent within it. It is like the reminiscence of a forgotten culture that once adorned the mind; as if the mind of one philosophesas pote met’ erotos,+ fallen into a new cycle, were beginning its spiritual progress over again, but with a certain power of anticipating its stages. It has the freshness without the shallowness of taste, the range and seriousness of culture without its strain and over- consciousness. Such a habit may be described as wistfulness of mind, the feeling that there is “so much to [251] know,” rather as a longing after what is unattainable, than as a hope to apprehend. Its ethical result is an intellectual guilelessness, or integrity, that instinctively prefers what is direct and clear, lest one’s own confusion and intransparency should hinder the transmission from without of light that is not yet inward. He who is ever looking for the breaking of a light he knows not whence about him, notes with a strange heedfulness the faintest paleness in the sky. That truthfulness of temper, that receptivity, which professors often strive in vain to form, is engendered here less by wisdom than by innocence. Such a character is like a relic from the classical age, laid open by accident to our alien modern atmosphere. It has something of the clear ring, the eternal outline of the antique. Perhaps it is nearly always found with a corresponding outward semblance. The veil or mask of such a nature would be the very opposite of the “dim blackguardism” of Danton, the type Carlyle has made too popular for the true interest of art. It is just this sort of entire transparency of nature that lets through unconsciously all that is really lifegiving in the established order of things; it detects without difficulty all sorts of affinities between its own elements, and the nobler elements in that order. But then its wistfulness and a confidence in perfection it has makes it love the lords of change. What makes revolutionists is either self-pity, or indignation [252] for the sake of others, or a sympathetic perception of the dominant undercurrent of progress in things. The nature before us is revolutionist from the direct sense of personal worth, that chlide,+ that pride of life, which to the Greek was a heavenly grace. How can he value what comes of accident, or usage, or convention, whose individual life nature itself has isolated and perfected? Revolution is often impious. They who prosecute revolution have to violate again and again the instinct of reverence. That is inevitable, since after all progress is a kind of violence. But in this nature revolutionism is softened, harmonised, subdued as by distance. It is the revolutionism of one who has slept a hundred years. Most of us are neutralised by the play of circumstances. To most of us only one chance is given in the life of the spirit and the intellect, and circumstances prevent our dexterously seizing that one chance. The one happy spot in our nature has no room to burst into life. Our collective life, pressing equally on every part of every one of us, reduces nearly all of us to the level of a colourless uninteresting existence. Others are neutralised, not by suppression of gifts, but by just equipoise among them. In these no single gift, or virtue, or idea, has an unmusical predominance. The world easily confounds these two conditions. It sees in the character before us only indifferentism. Doubtless the chief vein of the life of humanity [253] could hardly pass through it. Not by it could the progress of the world be achieved. It is not the guise of Luther or Spinoza; rather it is that of Raphael, who in the midst of the Reformation and the Renaissance, himself lighted up by them, yielded himself to neither, but stood still to live upon himself, even in outward form a youth, almost an infant, yet surprising all the world. The beauty of the Greek statues was a sexless beauty; the statues of the gods had the least traces of sex. Here there is a moral sexlessness, a kind of impotence, an ineffectual wholeness of nature, yet with a divine beauty and significance of its own.
Over and over again the world has been surprised by the heroism, the insight, the passion, of this clear crystal nature. Poetry and poetical history have dreamed of a crisis, where it must needs be that some human victim be sent down into the grave. These are they whom in its profound emotion humanity might choose to send. “What," says Carlyle, of Charlotte Corday, “What if she had emerged from her secluded stillness, suddenly like a star; cruel-lovely, with half- angelic, half-daemonic splendour; to gleam for a moment, and in a moment be extinguished; to be held in memory, so bright complete was she, through long centuries!”
Often the presence of this nature is felt like a sweet aroma in early manhood. Afterwards, as the adulterated atmosphere of the world assimilates [254] us to itself, the savour of it faints away. Perhaps there are flushes of it in all of us; recurring moments of it in every period of life. Certainly this is so with every man of genius. It is a thread of pure white light that one might disentwine from the tumultuary richness of Goethe’s nature. It is a natural prophecy of what the next generation will appear, renerved, modified by the ideas of this. There is a violence, an impossibility about men who have ideas, which makes one suspect that they could never be the type of any widespread life. Society could not be conformed to their image but by an unlovely straining from its true order. Well, in this nature the idea appears softened, harmonised as by distance, with an engaging naturalness, without the noise of axe or hammer.
People have often tried to find a type of life that might serve as a basement type. The philosopher, the saint, the artist, neither of them can be this type; the order of nature itself makes them exceptional. It cannot be the pedant, or the conservative, or anything rash and irreverent. Also the type must be one discontented with society as it is. The nature here indicated alone is worthy to be this type. A majority of such would be the regeneration of the world.
July, 1864.
250. +Transliteration: philosophesas pote met’ erotos.
252. +Transliteration: chlide.
The End
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كنتُ مدينةً له باحتراقي صمت إرادي لم يشبه مدينتي الغارقة في الفوضى
تقولها الآن اليوم لستَ معي و أضحك غَمَرَنا الكلام طبقُ النحاس جسر الهضبة الوحيدة لم يضجر لم يصدأ جسدك حين طوى يده بل روحك عندما شقت طريقها | ||




Writer talks of being pulled by two languages in childhood home
Sarah
H. Wright, News OfficeDecember 5, 2001
Leila Sebbar, a francophone North African writer of French and Algerian parents, discussed growing up hearing two languages but speaking only one of them in a talk in French titled "Arabic: The Silenced Father-Tongue."
Susan Slyomovics, the McMillan-Stewart Professor of the Study of Women in the Developing World and head of the anthropology section, introduced Sebbar and translated her Nov. 1 talk along with Isabelle de Courtivron, head of the foreign languages and literatures section.
Slyomovics noted that the date of the talk held particular significance for the author: it marked the beginning, in 1954, of the eight-year Algerian war for independence from France.
Sebbar, author of numerous novels and essays, lives in France and was born in Algeria, the daughter of a French mother and an Algerian father.
"She identifies herself as a 'crois�e,' a hybrid at the crossroads of the Occident and the Orient. Her works chronicle themes of exile and displacement, legacies of French colonialism, women from North Africa, and Maghrebi immigrants in France," said Slyomovics.
"The Silenced Father-Tongue" was a poetic and evocative memoir of growing up with two languages, French and Arabic, but speaking only French, her mother's language and the "compulsory language of law and order." Arabic, her father's language, was not acceptable.
Sebbar described her artistic territory with passion. "I write about the violence of imposed silence, of exile, of division. I write about my father's land--colonized, mistreated, savagely deported. I write this in my mother's language. It is how I can live as daughter of my father and of my mother. It is in France that I trace my Algerian routes," she said.
Sebbar opened with a description of her childhood home in Algeria, which was then a French colony. "My mother's house is the house of the French state. My mother raises us as little girls of the French Republic. The house does not speak the foreign language, Arabic. We have our mother's gestures; we wear dresses cut and embroidered like those in the fashion magazines to which my mother subscribes. As for our hair, my mother chooses plaid ribbons, a different color for each of the three sisters.
"And my father? In his wife's house, my father does not speak his own mother's language. He is Arab and I don't know that he is Arab," she said.
As a child-citizen of a guarded, miniature France, Sebbar was "not surprised that he does not speak the language of the Arab street; why should he speak it in the house of France? In our library is not a single book, not a single word, of his language. I am not aware that he knows the Quran by heart," she said.
LANGUAGE AT HOME
Sebbar portrayed their domestic life as a saga in constant translation, a colonial country complete with its own caste system and inequities of class and race. The servants spoke Arabic; her father addressed them in Arabic and her mother addressed them in French through her father, who translated for all.
"Aisha, then Fatima--sisters from the houses of the poor who help my mother--speak a household jargon limited to a mixture of cleaning, washing and ironing vocabulary. My mother the teacher corrects their errors, tirelessly. My father translates my mother's orders and advice whenever the work is more than routine. I hear him from afar, at the end of the garden near the laundry. He speaks the maids' language--his language?" Sebbar said.
But no. Her Arabic-speaking father, in fact, is not in the habit of speaking at all. Later, when he reads "what I write about his language, he will say nothing. Just as he said nothing about his mother's house, about his people, about his language, about his country, its history, its stories. Nothing. All is silence--obstinately, on my father's part, on the part of the Arab, of ancestral Algeria," she said.
Silence became Sebbar's cover, too, along with retreat into books. Her initial strategy was a type of literary geographic cure.
"Willfully I place myself in the life of books, far, always farther, from Russia before the October Revolution to an American America and Latin America. I withdraw from the language of my father, the Algerian man, to the language of my mother, the Frenchwoman," she said.
Yet her longing to hear her father's language persists and combines with her memory of Arabic voices from her childhood. As an adult living in France, Sebbar said, she uses writing to unify the two different languages her parents gave her.
"Beneath the French language I hear the language of my father's mother. It is no longer silent. I can hear it, spoken by Arab women in French housing projects. I want to hear them, write them in my mother's language, to gain access to the father, to the silence of his language--Arabic, the Arabic of my father," she said.
Questions following the talk were translated by Odile Cazenave, visiting associate professor in French.
Sebbar has four books available in English translation: "Sherazade, Missing: Aged 17, Dark Curly Hair, Green Eyes (1991)"; "Silence on the Shores" (2000); "My Mother's Eyes (1997)"; and "An Algerian Childhood" (2001).
Sebbar's talk, part of the Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Lecture Series, was co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program, the Center for Bilingual and Bicultural Studies, and the foreign languages and literatures section.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on December 5, 2001.



No light, no heat, no bread: stark reality for the powerless in GazaBesieged civilians pay the price for Israel's hardline response to rocket attacks Rory
McCarthy in Khan Yunis, GazaTuesday January 22, 2008
The Guardian A Palestinian boy waits to pump air by hand into his bedbound brother's lungs in case his respirator cuts out during blackouts। Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters
When it opened its doors seven years ago, the European Gaza hospital was one of the biggest foreign investments in the long-troubled Gaza Strip and one of the leading medical centres in the Palestinian territories. Yesterday, the 250-bed hospital was sliding rapidly into crisis, turning away patients for routine operations and struggling to manage emergency cases, as the sole power plant in Gaza halted electricity production after Israel stopped all fuel supplies.
Israel said its closure of the Gaza strip was intended to halt the firing of makeshift rockets by Palestinian militants into southern Israel.
Yet Israel's stark new policy has meant no fuel or food aid has come into Gaza since last Thursday. Large parts of the overcrowded strip had no power, leaving it without lights and heating, closing bakeries and forcing hospitals to rely on generators and their own limited fuel reserves. As night fell nearly all Gaza City was in darkness. Simply put, it was "collective punishment," said the European commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner.
Osama Nahal, a paediatric doctor in the European hospital's special care baby unit, looked resigned. "Politics is politics, but the care of human beings must be away from politics," he said. His unit now has 10 newly-born patients, of whom two are on ventilators.
The hospital in Khan Yunis, which was built with European and UN funding, takes most of its electricity from the power plant, so it was largely without any yesterday. The hospital's own fuel reserves, normally 120,000 litres, are down to 10,000 litres following Israel's economic boycott of Gaza over the past two years.
The UN sent emergency fuel supplies from its depot inside Gaza. It was enough to power the hospital's smallest generator and to provide electricity for the intensive care units and emergency operations. But when those last reserves run dry, the power will stop. "If new supplies don't come, we'll have to put the patients on manual ventilation. All of us will have to work at it non-stop, 24-hours a day," said Nahal.
"It's a very serious situation. If it continues, we will stop being able to give our service," said Mohammad Abu Shahla, the hospital director. "Do you think we have anywhere else to move the patients? There is nowhere."
Even with Gaza's power plant, which supplies around a quarter of the strip's electricity, closed, Israel yesterday at first appeared intent on holding to its closure policy. "As far as I'm concerned, all the residents of Gaza can walk and have no fuel for their cars, because they have a murderous terrorist regime that doesn't allow people in the south of Israel to live in peace," said the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert.
Last night, however, the defence minister, Ehud Barak, decided to allow one-off shipments of diesel and medicine into Gaza beginning today.
"We think Hamas got the message," said Arye Mekel, a foreign ministry spokesman. "When they want to stop the rockets they can." It was not clear how much fuel would be allowed in, or how regular the shipments would be.
The case of the increasingly desperate humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has been often told and often ignored in the two years since the Islamist movement Hamas won the Palestinian elections and then seized full control of Gaza last summer. But never before have the warnings of the fragility of the strip's 1.5 million people been so stark.
Yesterday, the UN Relief and Works Agency, which works with Palestinian refugees and provides crucial food aid to 870,000 Gazans, warned that it would have to stop distributing its food support by tomorrow or Thursday because it could not import the bags or the fuel to deliver the food.
Israeli officials have said they believe officials in Gaza had shut down the power plant unnecessarily.
However, John Ging, the director of UNRWA's operations in Gaza, said the crisis was acutely real. "The representative of the government of Israel making such a statement is obviously misinformed about the reality here," he said. "It is a matter of fact that the power plant has run out of fuel. The government of Israel knows very well to the last litre what comes into Gaza. They control everything."
Ging said the rocket fire from Gaza, though illegal, did not justify such punitive measures against the civilian population, and the Israeli civilian population hit by the rockets, notably in Sderot near the boundary with Gaza, also deserved protection.
"Firing rockets from Gaza is not supported by the population here," he said. "One's actions must be measured against the rule of law. We should look at each action and hold accountable those who are actually committing them."
Israeli military incursions and air strikes have killed nearly 40 Palestinians in Gaza in the past week, at least 10 of them civilians. Palestinian militants shot dead an Ecuadorian kibbutz volunteer last week and fired more than a 160 rockets into southern Israel, although the number fell after the closure.
As night fell yesterday a crowd of shoppers crammed into Samir Khadr's bakery in Gaza City, one of the few shops with the luxury of its own generator. Khadr had enough fuel to last just one more day. "Israel is the one responsible for this. We're more fed up with the rockets than they are," he said. "We have no electricity, no fuel, no cooking gas, just candles. It's going to be miserable."
Backstory:
Gaza has only one power plant, supplying around a quarter of the electricity used by the strip's 1.5 million people. The rest is bought mostly from Israel, and from Egypt. When Israel imposed a full closure on Gaza's crossings on Friday, all fuel supplies to the power plant were stopped. On Sunday evening the plant halted production. Both of its 10,000-cubic-metre storage tanks are now empty. Even before the latest closure, Israel was limiting fuel supplies, which kept production down to around 55 megawatts, a long way short of the 140MW that the plant was built to produce.

" سورةُ البياض"
نم
قد تتسع شمسٌ أخرى لعرائك..
لسواد أصابعك الخشنة..
قد
تحصدك مواسم الصيف
بدبقها ...
و دمها البارد..
أو تضمك زهرةٌ
لتقبّل وجهك الحنطي
بلهفةِ عجلى,,
و تحيك لكَ شوارع عريضة
ممراً كي يعبرََ فيه صباحك الطويل
بفتورٍ قامتك التي
لا تتقن الصمت..
أو توقظ حواسك الهرمة
تصدعات سنديانة المنفى
و تفرك عينيك غمامةُ
لا ماء فيها..
نم أو فعانق أرضك اليابسة,.,.
حورية ميناءك الماسيّ
عادت لبحرها
لترسم الرمل بشرقها
ببنِ شعرها الداكن
و زغبِ فوضاها...
أتعودُ؟!
برّكَ خنق ضفيرتها،
سكب غبار السعال على شمعها..
زبد...
امتلاءات ملح و دمع.,.,.
لا شمس تحرقها
أو غارَ يغسل أصابع قدميها...
لا كرسي يسند ظهرها
بعد تعب انتظاراتك
أو جدارَ تتركُ في زواياه
تاريخ ضمةٍ
أو بقايا وردة.
أتغفو في سريرها؟؟
و قد الشوك قد عبثَ بأبيضهِ؟؟
لملمت رعشاتها البكرُ
بقلبٍ نديّ
غطتْ بطنها العاري
بفضةٍ قد يراها النجمُ
لكن
لا أحدْ..
و ابتلع البحرُ عاجها الناحل
كأصدائه ِ الثملةْ
ضمّ غلالتها و ضحكَ قبل
أن تَبكِيه..
أهذا عتمٌ أخرُ؟
أم أنت عاجزُ يا بحر؟
لن تمزَّق أصدافه النيئة
هشاشةً رحمها..
سيمرغُ أحلامَ صحوتها عشها الزيتيِّ
و يطمرُ شهوتها الوحيدة..
قد يقصُ الصيفُ فستانها الأحمر..
و يغربلُ غيمها الأشقر...
أو
ينزعُ الحرُّ عباءتها ...
و يستبيح حلمتها الناضجة..
لكن البحر سيأخذها بعيدا
لتغمض جفنيها على
آخر حبة رمل
علقت بدمها...
لتضم ضوءها بوردِ البراري الصفرِ
و تصبح شهوتها فراشةً غادرت الياسمين,,
مريمَ بلحظِ الشفق
ترفلُ بنخلِ أندلسٍ يُعْتِمُ ما سواها...
هي و الزنبق الحزين
غيمتان توشكانِ
و لا تعبرانِ..
آذار -2007
منار شعبوق


ساحل المنارة، وأصابع شمالية
متى سألتَ عليها أتتك، وأنت لا تسألُ لأنك بكل بساطة لا تدري أنها هنا.. واقفةً ببراءة طفلٍ يدخل المدرسة لليوم الأول باحثا عن طفلة تشبه بنتَ جيرانه..أو عصفورةَ الشبابيك الزرقاء..
عيناه كانتا هناك..اسمه زيادٌ..هذا ما قرأته قبل أن تراه..كان أول من رأت في ذلك المسرح الكبير. زياد: "اقفلوا أجهزة الخليوي""هل عليّ أن أطفئ حواسي، غرائزي، أو صدري المغروز في مقعدك..إلى شمالي وشرقي؟؟"نساء من البقاع، من حنين لبنان واتساع ابتسامتها..أجساد من الفستق و النارنج، أفخاذ نحتت لتحرق (الأخضر واليابس).. وزياد كان واقفًا على (طريق غياب) ..أدار أنفاسه على النهار، وأخذ بيدها، سألها أن ترقص.
"هل أنت متدينة؟
""ربما""إذن لماذا تحجبين ليلك الغامض؟""
وماذا يزعجك في هذا؟"
"أريد أن أراكِ كما أنتِ!"
"أغمض عينيكَ إذن"ابتلعت ريقها القلق، واستدارت إليه، كانت حنا إلى جانبه، حنا صدفةٌ بيروتيةُ، أغنيةٌ على وجه الخليج، حبيبةُ الصيادين وبائعي الخبز اللبناني ومصوري ساحل المنارة بامتداده الدافئ. لكنه سألها ما اسمها، لتجيبه بسذاجة الأطفال كلهم "نور"تعلم أن اسمها ليس نور، ليس سلوى أو إيمان أو مجدلية..لكنها أضاءت- أو هذا ما شَعرَت- عندما نظر إليها...أضاء قمر خامد في دمها، ومشت إليها حقول الشمس لتلفها على كتفيه شالاً من البوح و الرحيل.. رقصا لخمس دقائق دون أن تلمس يديه أو دون أن يلمس يديها، لم تلبِ أمنيته لأنها رغم كل ما رمته بعيدا إلى البحر، ورغم كل ما غطى تفاصيلها الشمالية من رملٍ وفضةٍ لم تنزع غطاء قصيدتها..
حوريات ستٍ وهي امرأته لليلة واحدة. كان هذا ما تمنته هي، هو كان رجل الحنين والألوان الممتدة إلى الجنوب.. هو الصفدي الأصابع الذي أهداها حياتها وأعلنها صديقةً لشعرهِ الحزين وجبينهِ المقامر..
"أتنامينَ اليوم في بيروت؟؟""انظر إلى يدي، ترى إجابتك..""ماذا؟؟ أستموتين في بيروت؟؟!!"" أقرأت يدي؟ قلت لك أصابعي سيدي، أصابعي"ينظر من جديد، و بعد أن يقبل أصابعها يسألها :"أتناولت طعاما مالحا اليوم؟""ربما، فقد قبلت خدود البحر"" ماذا تعتقدين أنني فاعلٌ بكِ الليلةَ؟""ربما ستأخذني إلى كهفٍ بعيد، تحكي لي حكايات الصبايا الذين يرقصن طوال الليل قبل أن يأخذهم الموج إلى سيد القوارب الشتوية، حيث تخضَرُّ الأرض، وينبت النعناع ويسافر السيد إلى وطنٍ أكثر دفئاً"
"قلتِ النعناع؟؟ وما علاقة النعناع بالقوارب؟؟"
"علاقتي بهذا الوشم الأخضر على عنقك.."
"أتجرئين؟؟"
"كيف ولن تبقى؟!"
"وما أدراكِ؟""إنه قدرك يا صديقي، قدر عينيك..
""تمني يا حلوتي، قبل أن تسافري، سأمنحك حباً من الليل والحلم والخلود"
"أريد أن أذوب، فأصبح ماءاً، تغسل بي وجهك قبل أن تنامَ، فأغطيك بأطراف أصابع رطوبتي وأشم عينيك لأفتحهما على ما تحب..""لكِ ما شئتِ إذن.""بابيروس اللي إجى من الليل، حامل غموض الهرم ولون النيل، وصل عغفلة متل الفرح وعطانا الأمل
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كتبت له رسالتها الأولى:"اسمي أنا بيسان،كنت لك من زمان، بيارةً جميلة، ومعطفاً قديماً،خذني إليك، أنا ضيعةُ الشتاءِ..خذني، أنا ظهيرتك، أنا الغفوة عند سريرك، اعانقُ صمتك..أَتذكرْ أفيائي الخجولة، شبابيكي، أبوابي، ومعبدكَ؟؟أخذتك ذات ليل مع الحساسين، إلى الظلالِ التي تبكي.. خذني إليك
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كتب لها:"أنت الحب، أيامك هدوء انتظار شجي الغنى،الظهيرات في ظلكِ هي عبيرْ الفضاء وصفوَ الهنا..سترجعين؟؟ستَرًجِعِين..."
لكنه ما كتبُ لها
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