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"'I'm afraid, you're right... though not only of [these Europeans]. We'll lose everything, including the way we live... And these young people will lose even more. One day they'll make them spit on all that we know, and will make them recite their laws and their story of the world as if it were the holy word. When they come to write about us, what will they say? That we made slaves.'"
— Dec 11, 2022 07:53AM
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Abdul
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"'...If it was not they who made me into the useless coward you see here, then who did? Perhaps I just have the nature for it, or it is the way we live... our custom. But her, they broke her heart. What else is there to hold above that? If you don't want me to call it honour, then call it anything else you like.'"
— Dec 15, 2022 05:16PM
Abdul
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"...and images of his abandonment came to him in a spate. They all condemned him for self-neglect. Events had ordered his days and he had held his head above the rubble and kept his eyes on the nearer horizon, choosing ignorance rather than futile knowledge of what lay ahead. There was nothing he could think of to do which would unshackle him from the bondage to the life he lived."
— Dec 15, 2022 11:37AM
"...and images of his abandonment came to him in a spate. They all condemned him for self-neglect. Events had ordered his days and he had held his head above the rubble and kept his eyes on the nearer horizon, choosing ignorance rather than futile knowledge of what lay ahead. There was nothing he could think of to do which would unshackle him from the bondage to the life he lived."
Abdul
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"Yusuf felt the reel of his life running through his hand, and he let the reel run without resistance... [He] sat silently with himself, numbed by guilt that he had been unable to keep the memory of his parents fresh in his life. He wondered if his parents still thought of him, if they still lived, and he knew that he would rather not find out. He could not resist other memories in this state..."
— Dec 15, 2022 11:37AM
"Yusuf felt the reel of his life running through his hand, and he let the reel run without resistance... [He] sat silently with himself, numbed by guilt that he had been unable to keep the memory of his parents fresh in his life. He wondered if his parents still thought of him, if they still lived, and he knew that he would rather not find out. He could not resist other memories in this state..."
