...where i am currently reading Mahmoud Darwish's If I Were Another

[deathindusk]

...As I look behind me in this night
into the tree leaves and the leaves of life
as I stare into the water's memory and the memory of sand
I do not see in this night
other than the end of this night
the ticking clock gnaws at my life by the second
and shortens the life of this night
nothing of the night or of me remains to wrestle over..or about
but the night goes back to its night
and I fall into this shadow's pit

--I See What I Want to See

Noteworthy quotes:

Land, like language, is inherited.

--The Tragedy of Narcissus

Victory, like defeat, is a death, and crime might lead to virtue.

--The Tragedy of Narcissus