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فذاكَ الأب الرائع المنصرف إلى تفكيك الخيمة ومساعدة أطفاله على ارتداء الألبسة الصوفية، كان يودّ أن يضاجع سكرتيرته، ولكنه خائف من ردّ فعل زوجته. وتلك الزوجة التي تتمنى أن تعمل وتحقق استقلالها، كانت خائفة من زوج متسلط. وأولئك الأطفال، أمِن الممكن أن يكونوا على هذه الدرجة من اللطف والتهذيب لولا خوفهم من العقاب؟ وتلك الفتاة التي تقرأ كتاباً، وحيدةً تحت مظلة، خائفة في أعماقها من احتمال بقائها عانساً. وخائف أيضاً ذلك الشاب الذي يرغم نفسه على تدريب مكثَّف تلبية لرغبة والديه. والنادل الذي يقدم الكوكتيلات الاستوائية لزبائن أثرياء، مبتسماً رغم خوفه من أن يُصرف. والفتاة الخائفة من انتقادات الجيران، ما يجعلها تعدُل عن حلمها بأن تغدو راقصة، فتتابع دراسة الحقوق. والعجوز الذي يقول أنه يشعر بالصحة والنشاط منذ توقف عن التدخين والشراب، في حين أن فزعه من الموت يصفر مثل الريح في أذنيه. والزوجان اللذان يقفزان في رذاذ الأمواج، إنَّ ضحكهما يُخفي خوفهما من أن يصبحا عجوزين عليلين لا جدوى منهما. والرجل ذو الجلد البرونزي الذي يروح ويجيء بقاربه الآلي بمحاذاة الشاطيء، مبتسماً ملوّحاً بذراعه، إنه خائق من فكرة أن توظيفاته في البورصة يمكن أن تنهار في أي لحظة. وصاحب الفندق الذي يراقب من مكتبه هذا المشهد الفردوسي، ويسهر على راحة زبائنه وسعادتهم، إنه مؤرق بالخوف من أن يكتشف محضّلو الضرائب التزوير في حساباته. كل الموجودين على هذا الشاطيء الرائع، هم في نهاية هذا النهار، فريسة للخوف: خوف من العُزلة، من الظُلمة التي تملأ المخيلة بالشياطين، من يوم الحساب، من تعليقات الآخرين، من الحب والصدود، من طلب زيادة، من قبول دعوة، من الضرب في المجهول، من عدم النجاح في إتقان لغة أجنبية، من العجز عن التأثير في الآخرين، من الشيخوخة، من الموت، من أن تُرى العيوب ولا تُرى المزايا، ومن ألّا تُرى لا العيوب ولا المزايا ↗
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine. ↗
I got interested in the idea that love is often used as a kind of blanket explanation for things. I mean, battered wives, for instance: "Why did you go back to him?" "Oh, I loved him." "Why did you embezzle fifteen million pounds and run away to the other side of the world?" "Oh, well, because I was in love." All that and then you don't ask anything else. I thought if I just say, these people needed love and they found it, then it kind of explained it away. I wanted to look at their behaviour and how love can inspire the best and the very worst in human behaviour but love itself is not behaviour. So I avoided the word 'love' until the very end and it's the last word in the novel. I wanted to explore what people will do when they're in such terrible need of love. If there was a big idea then that was it. Then, of course, I hope that if it's a story worth reading it's the characters themselves who make you want to read it, not the big idea. I don't think a big idea drives a novel usually. Something else has to engage you on a much more kind of personal level. ↗
Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth. ↗
This I would like to be- braver and bolder, Just a bit wiser because I am older, Just a bit kinder to those I may meet, Just a bit manlier taking defeat; This for the New Year my wish and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit finer, More of a smiler and less of a whiner, Just a bit quicker to stretch out my hand Helping another who's struggling to stand, This is my prayer for the New Year to be, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit fairer, Just a bit better, and just a bit squarer, Not quite so ready to censure and blame, Quicker to help every man in the game, Not quite so eager men's failings to see, Lord, make a regular man out of me. This I would like to be- just a bit truer, Less of the wisher and more of the doer, Broader and bigger, more willing to give, Living and helping my neighbor to live! This for the New Year my prayer and my plea- Lord, make a regular man out of me. ↗
He dumped its contents out on the tablecloth: a gold ring, a gold nugget, and a gold signet seal. Francisco pointed to each. I told you that this was the secret of happiness. The three objects belonged to a rich collector. When he was asleep they argued all the time. The gold ring declared it was better than the other two because miners had risked their lives to find it. The gold signet said it was better than the other two because it had sealed the messages of a king. They argued day and night, until the ring said. ‘Lets ask God’, He will decide which of us is the best. The other two agreed, and so they approached the Almighty. Each made its claim for being superior. God listened carefully, and when they were done, he said, ‘ I cant settle your dispute, I’m sorry. The gold signet seal grew angry ‘What do you mean, you cant settle it? You’re God.’ That’s the problem said God. I don’t see a ring, a nugget and a seal. All I see is gold. ↗
Justice without mercy is tyranny ↗
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