Admiring faith, hope and integrity
May 11, 2009 · Posted in I was just thinking · 2 Comments
There is a view is so eloquently expressed by the narrator in the book Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah, born in Zanzibar, Tanzania (but now living in England) :
I knew then (not that I didn’t really have to be learned and relearned, and even then we forget them so easily and talk ourselves into something ameliorating and hopeful) that the food- stores were going to remain empty, and that schools would be without books, and the air would be filled with cruel, duplicitous promises, that justice would be just another word brayed from the mouths of the donkeys who rule us, and of course the toilets were going to remain blocked for a long time. Read more
