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دي تاني مرة بس أقرا لموراكامي وسبحان الله بعد مرور خمس سنين بقول برضه: "أنا عايزه أتجوز الراجل دا"

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أنا مش عارفه إيه اتغير فيا خلاني بقيت بفان بوي كل ما أقرا كلمة لطه حسين (قال يعني فاهمه اللي بقراه قوي)

She discusses how this view of black-writers burdens the critics, the reader, and thus the writer. She talks about her choice of the beginning and why she thinks it was the wrong choice. She describes her questions, her motivations and the circumstances of writing the novel. She eventually discussed how the inability to fight had allowed black people to mind themselves (which is a very interesting and genuine take)

I can write a full review just to that forewords. I am not claiming that I understood it 100%, but it certainly educated, and inspired me.

Toni Morrison is talking about how social positions would force your writings to be viewed as political, and thus being judged based on how faithful or faithless they are to a certain kind of politics rather than being judged based on the aesthetics of the work.

" بعد المفكر ما عدت أحتمل رجلا لا يعلمني "

جدير بالذكر انه الكاتبة متأثرة بالتراث، وبتسمي كل فصل باب كزا كزا

"كتب لي المفكر يوما يتحدث عن الحب، وكنت عمياء البصيرة وبدأت أخاف. "

"أن أرفض رجلا يعني أن أرفض الجميع؟ أن أقول لا لرغبة رجل يعني أن أقول لا لكل الرجال؟ تفسير ذكوري مريح للجميع وأولهم أنا."

ليه الإنسان يبقى بيقرا تلت كتب كلهم عاجبينه في نفس الوقت؟

الكتاب دا بيفكرني بنسايم قراية رواية بليغ في نقطة مهمة في حياتي، نقطة كويسه بين نقطتين سيئين. وونسني قوي وقتها.

2. The Narcissist

Simone ends this shocking chapter about the evidence and form of narcissism in women (that I highlighted most of it) by:

"The words “Whosoever shall save his life will lose it” apply specifically to her."

I'll try to record the chapters I read (Listen to) because I'm not going to read the books in order, and I'm generally more interested in volume 2.

I've read
1. Sexual Initiation

That was a hard read because of the change of conditions, the difficult language, the reasoning and the influence (and sensitivity) of the subjective experience. I will certainly revisit.

That's very inspiring. I want everyone to read it at some point in their lives that if they'll ever be ready. I'm not even sure I'm ready.