gaza – day 4

also see “war in context”.
from “israelity bites” -
Gaza Today
I’ve never seen anything like this. It all happened so fast but the amount of death and destruction is inconceivable, even to me and I’m in the middle of it and a few hours have already passed. I think 15 locations were hit during the air raid [...]

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dis-pel

there is something about movement that for me is intimately linked with the act of writing. i mean specifically physical, spatial movement, not the cycling of temporal stages or the leaping between maqams and darajahs or the banal, profane drift that so characterizes the (my) lack in the face of daily hisab. each of these, [...]

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december

it is a terrible thing, to listen.
–
Es laermt das Licht im Wipfel deines Baumes
und macht dir alle Dinge bunt und eitel,
sie finden dich erst, wenn der Tag verglomm.
Die Daemmerung, die Zaertlichkeit des Raumes,
legt tausend Haende ueber tausend Scheitel,
und unter ihnen wird das Fremde fromm.
- Rilke, Das Stundenbuch

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