Helga زن زندگی آزادی مرد میهن آبادی ’s Reviews > A Table for One: Under the Light of Jerusalem > Status Update
Helga زن زندگی آزادی مرد میهن آبادی
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It was clear to me that I knew neither the secret of plot development nor the power of simply stated facts. Instead of searching for a correct fact, I reach for metaphors. An excess of metaphors produces an unpleasant mist and a false sense of the poetic. The right facts, one following the next, are the driving force, the engine that moves a story along. A story, like a river, cannot stand still in one place.
— Dec 27, 2025 09:12AM
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Helga زن زندگی آزادی مرد میهن آبادی
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My mother tongue was German. My grandparents spoke Yiddish. We lived among Ruthenian peasants and so we spoke Ruthenian. The government was Romanian, so we spoke Romanian. The intelligentsia often spoke French, so we spoke French. After the war I was with the Russians and I learned to speak Russian.
— Dec 22, 2025 09:20PM
Helga زن زندگی آزادی مرد میهن آبادی
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Usually there's silence in a café, but sometimes a wave of speech will surge up, flooding the listener with painful things that have been mostly kept down, things buried deep in the soul for many years that have at last
found an opening and emerged in words.
— Dec 19, 2025 08:13AM
found an opening and emerged in words.
