ـ "... إن فى الإنسان منطقة عجيبة سحيقة لا تصل إليها الفضيلة ولا الرذيلة ، ولا تشع فيها شمس العقل والإرادة ، ولا ينطق لسان المنطق ، ولا تطاع القوانين والأوضاع ، ولا تتداول فيها لغة أو تستخدم كلمة ... إنما هى مملكة نائية عن عالم الألفاظ والمعاني ... كل مافيها شفاف هفاف يأتي بالأعاجيب فى طرفة عين ... يكفي أن ترن فى أرجائها نبرة ، أو تبرق لمحة ، أو ينشر شذا عطر ، حتى يتصاعد من أعماقها فى لحظة من الإحساسات والصور والذكريات ، ما يهز كياننا ويفتح نفوسنا على أشياء لا قبل لنا بوصفها ، ولا بتجسيدها ، ولو لجأ إلى أدق العبارات و أبرع اللغات ... " ـ

توفيق الحكيم

Within man lies a deep wondrous spot, to which neither virtue nor vice can reach. Upon which the sun of reason and will never rise. In which the mouth of logic never speaks, the laws and rules are never obeyed, and not a language is used nor a word is ever spoken.
It is a distant Kingdom, beyond words and meanings. With everything is a sheer murmur offering wonders in a blink. From the depths of which, suffice a single tone or a flash of mind or a scent of a perfum, to allow rise of emotions, pictures and memories, a rising that will shake our being and open ourselves to things we can neither describe nor materialize even if we used the most refined of phrases or the most skillful of languages.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim.
(My humble transalation of the arabic text)

Sunday, May 03, 2009

@night

These two songs I recommend listening to at night in a quiet room.
For me, and even if it's noon, they set the same atmosphere I just described, a quiet night in a quiet room. A different detail in each song, for Paris, it's always a dark room ... looking on deserted rainy street, an hour or so after mid-night, with half closed white window curtains. For the head and heart, It's a wooden walls dark room, lit in a very dim yet warm way, mostly I can't see clearly into this room but I know the really heavy curtains are there because I can never see the dawn that's coming.

My favorite of the two? ........ there is always a favorite even if we don't admit it, there is always the 0.00005% that makes the difference ..........The Rainy night in Paris.

I hope anyone who listens to these two will like them as I do.

A rainy night in Paris


The head and the heart

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