I find the tags helpful – and combine reading those with s”

oh, i completely understand the ’why’ of it, all of the ramifications of waht they do, they are beyond nervy and very brave and so dedicated, when i see one in english i jump on it, just wanted to say that it is torturous to read the tags, see something imminent causing more strife and can’t read it, and if given the translated articles i would be putting them to good use…….

thanks for the other links, (as you know) i will use them.

one is called prospero’s island. is a watercolor, abstract, with lines around all of the water marks.

like an aerial topographical photograph of an island. with side things from the play.

i had his last ’speech’ (can’t remember the proper name of it) on my refrigerator for about 15 years.

thanks.

and I too am now off … work comes early tomorrow.

thanks to all for good conversation

I find the tags helpful – and combine reading those with scanning Aswat Aliraq and Missing Links daily. Also reports from UNHCR and Reliefnet are helpful.

sounds crazy, but i have always wanted to…..

when i was young, my uncle, who worked for the guggenheim institute, was a historian on the side, took out a book, don’t remember which one, to explain something to me……

it was written in arabic.

i remember saying, it’s so beautiful. the script, to write like that every day. what a feeling.

he explained how it was written right to left. i thought, how great if you are left-handed, he explained how insightful a thought that was. a high compliment from a man who was entrenched in such depths his entire life. truly a genius, the kind of weird kind, hermit kindof, but loves humanity.

he then got a book out written in hebrew.

same thing to me, right to left.

later, i learned they were enemies.

never understood that. they write the same way, not the same as us, they ought to be the same i thought.

funny, huh?

when seals and crofts summer breeze album came out i played it on his stereo, there was a song, east of ginger trees that had references i didn’t understand, so, knowing he was a walking encyclopedia, he explainedit to me, that it was a religious reference. he taught me many things about tolerance and that people just live their lives the way that they are taught and where their minds take them.

fine man.

welllllllll, mark,,,,,,, that is EXACTLY why i would like the english after…..”they give an idea” an idea? i want to read it, the whole thing, the whole bloody mess, please……i see things that i would REALLY like to know what the hell is going on, and the tags say SOMETHING HAPPENED, yet, i can’t know what they are, english teaser tags, i have equated them to hype shows, many times i have googled to find out, and you know and i know, not a thing available anywhere else, so, i get to worry and wonder about no water, what happened without really knowing, cuz I CAN’T READ IT. check back and there’s never any reference back to the post i couldn’t read, so the event happened, yet i don;t know what it is…..

i am a letter writer, of the prolific kind, i’m not a sounder=offer, i write with quotes and information. and gg’s stuff could help me define things. one more source that i can use to make a concise point.

so, learn arabic at age 49? by the time i do, hopefully it will be over and english and arabic will be as common as popcorn is here.

and Angie – thank you for the Cesaire! wow

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! = SLAVES!!!! You are 15 Seconds late with the MILK this is UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!

There’s a good reason why we’re designed to have kids when we’re young……..

*poof*

Prospero, you are the master of illusion.
Lying is your trademark.
And you have lied so much to me
(lied about the world, lied about me)
that you have ended by imposing on me
an image of myself.
underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior,
Thatís the way you have forced me to see myself
I detest that image! What’s more, it’s a lie!
But now I know you, you old cancer,
and I know myself as well. (162)

“This final scene in The Tempest shows Cesaire’s attitude towards colonization. The colonizer imposes on the colonized all kinds of lies. The colonizer makes the colonized feel unworthy of living.”

http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/Cesaire.html

This occupation and spread of American empire must end.