Status Updates From حكاية للكائن الزمني

The first twenty pages of A Tale for the Time Being threw me right into a flood of pop culture references and internet slang, which I’m not usually used to. I do want to keep reading and see where her story goes.

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"But to her surprise, although the color of the ink occasionally bled from purple to pink to black to blue and back to purple again, the writing itself never faltered, growing smaller and if any thing even denser, straight through to the very last, tightly packed page.

The girl had run out of paper before she ran out of words."

"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time... In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."

"31. "Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we a in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding." -Milan Kundera, Book of Lang ter and Forgetting, 1980.

"I don't mind thinking of the world without me because I'm unexceptional. but I hate the idea of the world without old Jiko. She's totally unique and spe-cial, like the last Galapagos tortoise or some other ancient animal hobbling around on the scorched earth, who is the only one left of its kind."

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