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• W4206205657 abstract "Blue Waves Hisham Bustani (bio) Translated by Thoraya El-Rayyes (bio) Although the alarm hadn’t gone off, he woke up at 6:30 am. A strange energy moved through the room on this spring morning. Its blue-like shadow reflected off the walls, off the furniture. The old seventy-something man felt radiant, attractive, ebbing, flowing. He felt warm and strong. He sprang out of bed (he usually lazes around for half an hour first). He walked to the kitchen, humming (his face is usually set into a scowl until he has finished his third cup of coffee). He put the coffeepot on the stove and made his coffee (he usually waits for his daughter to do everything). This wasn’t quite him. It was a somehow different man he glimpsed in the hallway mirror. A somehow different man who consumed three cups of coffee while they were still hot. A somehow different man who shaved, perfumed himself, and put on a suit and tie at 7:00 am, as if getting ready for his own wedding. “I’ll go get the paper.” It was, however, the exact same man who said this to himself. The newspaper was the preface to his every day. He would read nothing but the death announcements, which he would extract with surgical precision, throwing the rest of the pages into the garbage. “The only page that isn’t full of lies,” he used to say. On that page, he would find people he knew, old comrades, colleagues from his old job, distant relatives, neigh-bours, and many strangers. He would read their death announcements carefully and feel a certain connection to them. He referred to them as “his friends,” carrying that list of death under his arm. “You’re driving me up the wall. Why do you buy the newspaper every day and only read this morbid page?” his daughter complained. “God protect us.” “Everyone is here, on this page” he replied. “The man with the extravagant coffin and the one who couldn’t afford a shroud. The murderer and the victim. The judge and the judged. Man and woman, young and old. [End Page 155] Lying next to each other in black squares, with the same heading at the top of each one: An Obituary for the Virtuous So-and-So. All of them, virtuous: the cheating husband and his wife, the sellout, the pimp, the beggar, the thief. They all wear this shining crown, and people wave white banners for them. Three days of mourning for each, meals in honour of their memory, people flocking to their funerals. “Some squares might be bigger, but it doesn’t matter. The square on the page won’t make the rectangle in the ground any bigger. A hole is a hole; no one gets special treatment from the maggots who carefully eat away at the flesh. “This page gives me peace of mind. When I sit with it, I feel like I have a companion. I meet new friends and miss the old ones. I learn the names of their grieving children, sometimes their grandchildren. I am going to spend eternity with these people someday. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to call one of them by his nickname? Abu So-and-So. I am sure it would make him happy.” “I’ll go get the paper,” he said to himself, opened the door and left. On the way, he found himself mesmerized by the mundane: tall, green trees with birds in their branches, broken paving stones on the sidewalk, a few faraway clouds in the heart of the blue sky, a young man and his girlfriend walking with their arms around each other, laundry fluttering on a balcony, and then Abu Muhammad’s corner store. Did he really live in this neighbourhood? Is this his street? And Abu Muhammad, did he always have this serene smile? “Here you go, Abu Jamal. Take your dead and get out of here before Azrael notices. God protect us.” Abu Muhammad laughed as he passed him the newspaper and then got distracted by a boy in school uniform who couldn’t decide what to buy with his allowance..." @default.
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