Issue No. 594
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The quill
The quill is the very shadow of my soul, a part and parcel of mu existence. My entire life has been dependent on it. Every shift in my psyche, be it positive or negative, has followed on the strokes of a pen. When it truly expressed my feelings, the quill would raise my spirits; when it failed to do so it had the opposite effect.
This has been the case since the start of my life. When I set out my dream was that something, anything, would be published under my name (the Arabic convention being to add "with the pen of" to the name in question) so that the word "quill" was always on my mind. My relationship with the pen has been consolidated by the fact that I've never resorted to any other writing technology. I have no knowledge of word processing or the Internet or anything like that.
Only the pen is my companion, the path connecting the deepest recesses of my psyche to life; when I was attacked and lost the use of my right arm for a while, my failure to hold a pen forced me to stop writing. I found that it was impossible for me to even dictate. It was simply the case that without the pen the thoughts just do not come. They are dependent on it, and as far as I am concerned nothing can, nothing will, replace it.
Based on an interview by Mohamed Salmawy
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