Friday, March 6, 2009
Inspiration....
Marjane Satrapi started writing Persepolis when she was 29 in 1999, and it was published the following year. If she had written it 10 years earlier it would have been rubbish, she says, because it would have been too angry. Back then, her world was simply divided into goodies and baddies. Whereas the extremists of her youth took the shape of mullahs, now she sees them everywhere. "I am against fundamentalism. I am not against any religion, Islam, Judaism, Christianity etc. It is the use of an ideology to kill people that I am against." She is not critical of the veil per se, she is critical of its imposition. "I really believe in a society where if someone wants to walk in the street completely naked they will be able to, and if someone wants to wear a veil they will also be able to."
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Blu Tac
Some days words collect in my chest, just below my breasts. They mash up against each other like a big piece of Blu Tac and rest like a dead weight. I can feel their presence in every sentence i utter. I know they are there but i cannot speak them.
I am unsettled and anxious.
I know these thoughts, these words, these ideas are so close to my heart and so true to my person that they must be contained. I write, the words dont come. I speak, they dont travel to my lips. They wont move because they are afraid. Because within me they are safe.
What do i do with this heavy, sticky lump of Blu Tac that's glued to my ribs? Why is it that whenever i feel i have chucked it away it returns?
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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