Happy Persian New Year, Sal-e noe mobarak! I set my 7-seen table finally this morning. I want everyone to notice my happy mug which contains some wheat cat grass. The one I try to make from lentil, didn't turn out very well since I remembered to start doing it 10 days ago. The weather today was surprisingly amazing. I received some chocolate as eidi (which was a nice surprise too and from someone whom I was trying to be mad at), played squashed with some friends, then went swimming. As I was swimming in the quiet pool, I started thinking that I should be very grateful for this nice facility on campus and should take more advantage of it. I was happy but by the end of the day, I couldn't help it wonder about some stuff in my life. More thinking and analyzing does not help either; Some cry does though. At least I feel better now. I am just worried that I am on the wrong track. I wish everyone a wonderful year ahead. I usually don't right anything here in Farsi but I really
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I hope you are not referring to walls because some of your recent posts did not got a comment. It is a coincidence that after your recent thoughts about gender assigned to unanimated objects in english poetry it was also a wall (in Shakespeares Midsummernight Dream) that came to my mind.
And, funny enough, although the wall's character is described here as very compassionate, opening a small hole to facilitate Pyramus and Thisbe seeing each other, Shakespeare assignes the wall a male gender (big relieve).
THESEUS
The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.
BOTTOM
(out of character) No, in truth, sir, he should not. “Deceiving me” is Thisbe’s cue. She is to enter now and I am to spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.
Which walls are harder to accept, those that separate two lovers or those that keep people confined in prison for years ? I received a few days ago a message from the sister of Amir Hekmati (http://freeamir.org/) where she said that her brother is imprissoned in Evin since 18 month without having any possibility to communicate with his family and friends. I hope that in all cases, the walls you were talking about and the walls that that keep political prisoners and the walls that seperate people who love each other, will all come down soon.
greetings,
Michael