Reading on a rainy day: Days of Dust by Halim Barakat
September 20th, 2013, 11am
It was 19.4°C with broken clouds. The breeze was light.
“‘You’re a Muslim!’
‘No, I reject and am rejected. I am not a believer, but not an atheist either.’
‘You’re a communist?’
‘No, but not a capitalist.’
‘You’re a rightist?’
‘No.’
‘You’re a leftist?’
‘No.’
‘Well, what are you then?’
‘I am not a part of anything. All I know of myself is that I reject and am rejected.’”
-Halim Barakat, Days of Dust.
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