"It's like you're part of a disaster movie. You're not a lead character in the movie though; you're one of the background figures, the extras, being terrorized or falling prey to the disaster en masse. Your role is simply to engender terror in the viewers, and then to die."
"I know in my heart that I live by chance, and that when I die it too will be by chance. How many chances does the future have for you, stashed in its pocket? How many chances have I already used up?"
"It feels right now as if we are all living in a cloud of slow-moving sand: we inch forward through it, nervously, not seeing a yard in front of us, and when we come across a pile of orange trees, scattered at our feet like an assassin's victims, we know we are lucky. They were mistaken for us. Death is so close that it doesn't see you anymore. It mistakes you for trees, and trees for you. You pray in thanks for this strange fog, this blindness."
"I know in my heart that I live by chance, and that when I die it too will be by chance. How many chances does the future have for you, stashed in its pocket? How many chances have I already used up?"
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55th book so far this year...
Atef Abu Saif describes terror in his book, The Drone Eats With Me. One has to wonder what the point is. Instead of a few dead, now thousands are dead, mostly Gazans. In reading this book, one can truly understand terror. Advanced weapons can kill at a distance. When will your time be up? Worse, as your family sits in fear, there is nothing you can do to protect them. You live on luck in a time of terror.
It's like you're part of a disaster movie. You're not a lead character in the movie though; you're one of the background figures, the extras, being terrorized or falling prey to the disaster en masse. Your role is simply to engender terror in the viewers, and then to die.
Reading a couple of hard ones I've been avoiding this #biblioweekend.
The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary | 
