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from the book

Posted July 14th, 2009 in Leben, Quot, Writings and tagged , , by MeL

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If colors could be used to describe writings, his writings made full use of every colors from black to white.

1. There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of our self is led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. if every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel’s load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love’s burden. By the time it was finally able to shrug off the crushing weight of her memory, Chloe had nearly killed my camel

5. The physical world refused to let me forget. Life is crueler than art, for the latter usually assures that physical surrounds reflect characters’ mental states. If someone in a Garcia Lorca play remarks on how the sky has turned low, dark, and gray, this is no longer an innocent meteorological observation, but a symbol of a psychological state. Life gives us no such handy markers – a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while. Similarly, in the course of a beautiful warm summer day, a car momentarily loses control on a winding road and crashes into a tree, fatally injuring its passengers.

6. But the external world did not follow my inner moods. The buildings that had provided the backdrop to my love story, and that I had animated with feelings derived from it, now stubbornly refused to change their appearance so as to reflect my inner state. The same trees lined the approach to Buckingham Palace, the same stuccoed houses fronted the residential streets, the same Serpentine flowed through Hyde Park, the same sky was lined with the same porcelain blue, the same cars drove through the same streets, the same shops sold much the same goods to much the same people.

7. This refusal of change was a reminder that the world was an entity that would spin on regardless of whether I was in love or out of it, happy or unhappy, alive or dead. It could not be expected to change its expressions according to my moods, nor would the great blocks of stones that formed the streets of the city take time to consider my love story. Though they had been happy to accommodate my happiness, they had better things to do than to come crashing down now that Chloe was gone.

2 Responses so far.

  1. 1AM says:

    I like his book as well! (but I just read one book, the romantic movement)
    and I like your review more ;)

  2. MeL says:

    oh 1AM, you read his books too? So far, I’ve only read 2 books by him. But i really like his style.

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