Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Murambi

they say that he was free...

the one who has no no fence around his house is one who has no enemy...

and he had no fence around his mind...

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these lines are paraphrased from a book I'm reading:

Murambi, The Book of Bones. Boubacar Boris Diop
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4 comments:

Harlequin said...

Jon-- what a lovely book this must be...this sampling has a softness that is powerful..
I'm glad it is singing to you

human being said...

yesterday i read the foreword of this book online...

that genocide... so horrible!
sure i cannot read this...

just i know all the borders and differentiating/separating lines are first drawn in our minds... by?

can we stop the hand that draws them?
yes...

when we decide no to follow... but to walk our own path... to think...

oh... teachers... oh parents...
ARE YOU AWAKE?
our frame of thoughts shape druing the childhood...
changing them later is so hard...

teach the child to think analytically... creatively...

Jon said...

Harle,

it was a good book I must say... but not because it told a wonderful story... sometimes that what a good book is... one that tells a tough story... another line from this book:

"He would tirelessly recount the horror. With machete words, club words, words studded with nails, naked words and ... words covered with blood and shit... every chronicler could at least learn -- something essential to his art -- to call a monster by its name."

HB,

the reading I'm doing on the genocide in Rwanda is for a course on "post"-conflict literature... and as you point out... it's hard to read sometimes...

but as you also point out it's important to be informed and AWAKE to the world... to the part we play in it... I'm writing a paper for this course now and it's proving to be quite difficult... how to speak in a way that shows respect to the subject matter and the stories of witnesses, of victims, of killers, and of survivors...

I think, too, that there is something to education as you speak of it... of teaching that there is no difference between the "I" and the "Other"...

more on this again later...

human being said...

great subject matter...

sure to understand why people tend to draw borders between "I" and "Other", deep psychological and sociological research should be done...

one thing that can obviously be traced is that

'I' defies 'Other'
not because 'Other' lacks
but because 'I' lacks

and 'I' projects this lack on 'Other'

ego is always trying to save 'I'' from humiliation...

when not educated mentally, 'I' competes... is jealous... suffers the lack... differentiates... revenges...