Readings and Coordinates: From Texts of Read Books
A short collection of translated reflections and excerpts touching on media, history, memory, aging, political power, and personal fear.
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· Microphones and lenses are now idols and pagan images of the electronic age; before them alone rituals are performed and prayers are recited... especially for them...!
· Courage after death remains, a hated imam, just as truth has nothing to do with defeat... or victory...! Even if the saying "that the pages of history are written by the victors alone" is repeated to our ears constantly..!
· There are two prisons: the "prison of forgetting".... and the "prison of bars"...!
· A false friend is like a shadow walking behind me when I am in the sun... and he disappears when I am in the darkness.... (Gibran Khalil Gibran).
· The reluctance of the elders to go obscures the youth from coming, and more delusively, obstructs their path to the experience of managing conflicts....! It was said about the elderly among Soviet politicians.... previously..!
· Sick elders in the Kremlin allow kinds of corruption that are unnecessary, but they buy the silence of others with them.....! And the definitive texts on presidential terms disappear.. so that no one — even if he wanted to — can overstep 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 wind ...and you close the windows..... I fear your saying that I love you ..too....! .....I fear that you may love me one day..... and I will see nothing but your shadows...!
· TheDate: 26-1-2021
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Zuhdi Shubeitah, “Readings and Coordinates: From Texts of Read Books” (English translation of «قراءات واحداثيات.. من نصوص كتب مقروءه», originally published 13 September 2022), https://www.zuhdish.co/en/articles/readings-and-coordinates-from-texts-of-read-books
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