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“I keep listening, my ears trained to the sound of repeated bombings, and I feel a strange closeness with Gaza, as well as a desire to hear the shelling from nearby, and to touch motes of dust from the buildings being bombed. The absence of dust brings an awareness of how profoundly far I am from anything familiar, and how impossible it will be to return.”

“And he begins speaking in a voice so calm and clear, so untouched by stuttering, stammering or rambling, that it feels as if he is smoothly unravelling a delicate thread, one which cannot easily be cut.”

“sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific”