http://peoplesgeography.com/2006/09/13/mahmoud-darwish-murdered-houses/ Creating peoples' geographies Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:00:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://peoplesgeography.com/2006/09/13/mahmoud-darwish-murdered-houses/#comment-44887 Indian Writing :: Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish :: October :: 2008 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:50:45 +0000 http://peoplesgeography.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/mahmoud-darwish-murdered-houses/#comment-44887 [...] — A slaughtered house is the severing of things from what they meant, from the feelings they inspired. It’s the duty of tragedy to change the gaze of eloquence and to reflect upon the life of Things, for in everything there’s a being that suffers: a memory of fingers, a memory of a smell, a memory of a picture. Houses are murdered just as their inhabitants are killed and the memories of things are slaughtered: stones, wood, glass, iron, mortar - scattered like human limbs. Cotton silk, linen, exercise books, books - torn apart like the unsaid words of people who did not have the time to say them. Dishes broken, spoons, toys, old records, pipes, doorknobs, the refrigerator, the washing machine, pots, jars of olives and pickles, cars - all broken, like their owners… The rest here. [...] [...] — A slaughtered house is the severing of things from what they meant, from the feelings they inspired. It’s the duty of tragedy to change the gaze of eloquence and to reflect upon the life of Things, for in everything there’s a being that suffers: a memory of fingers, a memory of a smell, a memory of a picture. Houses are murdered just as their inhabitants are killed and the memories of things are slaughtered: stones, wood, glass, iron, mortar – scattered like human limbs. Cotton silk, linen, exercise books, books – torn apart like the unsaid words of people who did not have the time to say them. Dishes broken, spoons, toys, old records, pipes, doorknobs, the refrigerator, the washing machine, pots, jars of olives and pickles, cars – all broken, like their owners… The rest here. [...]

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