We Remain (Baqoun)

The word “baqoun”, in Arabic, is translated as “we remain”, in the present tense...in the original it carries an intention and a decision concerning the future, it carries a “we will remain"

Let me start with two of the great ones (Brazilian writers, that is).

Milton Hatoum wrote one day, as he was citing someone else, that the world is a cloaca. I do agree.

And Raduan Nassar, in one of his phrases full of power, says “to the noise of the world, I answer with my silence".

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I wish I could just turn my back …