Readings and Coordinates from Read Texts
The essay reflects on microphones and lenses as modern idols, the idea that history is written by victors, generational hesitation in leadership, and includes translated literary reflections on love and fear.
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Microphones and lenses are now, idols and statues of the electronic age; before them alone rituals are performed, and prayers are recited.. especially for them...!
Courage after death remains, indeed disliked, as truth has nothing to do with defeat... or victory...! Even if repeated to our ears constantly, the saying "that the pages of history are written by the victors alone"..!
There are two prisons: "the prison of forgetting".... and "the prison of bars"...!
The fake friend is like the shadow walking behind me, when I am in the sun... and disappears when I am in the dark.... (Gibran Khalil Gibran).
The elders' hesitation to go prevents the youth from coming, and more deluding than that, obstructs their path to the experience of managing conflicts....! It was said about the elderly of the Soviet rulers... previously..!
The sick elders in the Kremlin allow kinds of corruption that are unnecessary, but they buy with them the silence of others.....! And the decisive texts on presidential terms disappear... so that no one – even if he wanted to – can exceed them....!
From translated readings... away from the numbers......I liked it at dawn.!
(Oh my fear) ...you love the rain... and you carry an umbrella.... you love the sun... and you hide in the shade... you love the winds... and you close the windows..... I fear your saying I love you... also....! .....I fear that you might love me one day..... and I see nothing but your shadows...!
TheDate: 26-1-2021
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Readings and Coordinates from Read Texts” (English translation of «قراءات .. واحداثيات.. من نصوص كتب مقروءه.», originally published 12 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/readings-and-coordinates-from-read-texts
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