Reflections
AT ebb time I wrote a few lines upon the shore..and gave them all my heart and all my soul..at tide time I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.."jubran khalil"

:: Story Of A City

By: Abd Al Rahman Munif. This is the book I was planning to start reading. I already read it in arabic years ago but when I found the english version I thought it would be nice to read it again  and also see if it is just as good in English as it was in Arabic.
 
Now Khalida tagged me,and thanks to her, I think I will not read it! I much rather go back to the arabic version which was much more appealing .If you love Amman, get the book.The arabic one!
 
However, page 123,line 5 onwards  reads:
 
"This was not the only game that needed a special kind of stone. Stones of a different size and description were used for slingshots. They had to be relatively smaller and more polished."
 
Ok...I tag Rebecca, Iyas, and MommaBean .

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On December, 07, 2006 10:44 PM , kinzi said:

thanks Salam, for more incentive to learn to read Arabic properly...and to know what books to stay away from until I do!


On December, 09, 2006 3:55 PM , Randa N.
from Jordan said:

well, If you have time to read. I must say. You are something!
I hardly have the time between el-jali u el-tabekh u el-tadrees u tab3an el-shugul !

c ya




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