All possible futures

Muslims have knocked two times at backdoors of Europe and were knocked down both times, In the battle of Tours close to Paris and in the battle of Vienna.
Mongols and Tatars were subsided by stubborn Russians.

Downhill

Mongol attack has changed the direction of Islamic culture, the social interactions in Persian empire changed a lot after being overrun by Mongols, at the time scientific and cultural development in Islamic world deceased based on the huge demographic loss.
Even today in any remote villages in Iran and central Asia, hearing Genghis Khan’s name makes people’s hair stand up.

Hidden border lines

Annihilation of Ottoman empire after world war I resulted in dividing the middle east among European colonizers, Great Britain and France. Revolutionary Russia overlooked the traditional role and didn’t participate in dividing the loot.

1- Middle east hegemony is deeply affected by the borderlines set by British and French in Sykes-Picot agreement, whose consequences continue to dictate hostilities and friendship ties. It is easy to confer:
a) British took control of nowadays Iraq, Jordan, most of the Arabian peninsula and started drawing lines between the territories and building states, I like the Israel-Jordan-Iraqi belt.
b)French took control of Lebanon, Syria, some southern parts of Turkey and Kurdish region. Beirut is the middle eastern Paris.
There are reasons for Frenchs’ being more passionate toward defiant Palestinians rather than Israelis and vice versa for Great Britain and the US.

2-Yugoslavia was and is intimately torn apart based on being or not being ruled by Turks in nineteenth century. Slovenia and Croatia are in the process of joining EU, Slovenia joined last year and Croatia accompanied by Romania and Bulgaria will join by 2007. Dates for Serbia and Bosnia? who knows. A deep fault lies on old boundaries.

The region is in a transition period, usually it takes more than a hundred years. Some politicians are impatient.

Krapp’s Last Tape

Me who I was and him who you were

You were staring at the calm long haired unshaved guy in the corner of the room bulging bananas nonstop and looking with glittering eyes. You were angry. “How many times? Stop devouring my money..”

Her who she was and me who I were

We are walking the moony streets, we sit down facing the giant bill board and watch the detergents, vacuum cleaners, insurance plans and laughing faces going on the screen without a word.

“…We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side.”

What happens when the actor does not feel the director? “Nothing.. keeps on eating bananas, I suspect this is the reason he comes here everyday for the rehearsal.”

Me who I was and him who you were

See you in Rome

Desert Scraps – II

This dorky guy came in the office at 2 a.m. and asked for help, his bloody face looks like a harsh accident, he wants his car back from the snow, not now buddy, I won’t go out in such a horrible snowstorm tonight, this nasty weather. What? 73 miles down the road to the west? Couldn’t you screw you car closer? Yeah your car will freeze till morning, but don’t worry you can cook it up again, if anything remained, huh, turned over? Man forget the car go wash the blood off your face, I will call the head. Don’t worry stop bullshitting, you are a student? My intellectual friend, you messed up. Stop it. Quiet.

Aha, so have you heard about Chinese miner ghosts passing the highway hand in hand in foggy nights? Forget about passing the desert, stay here and I will charge you a few bucks, you don’t like your crappy sandwich? Where have you got this strange accent from? California! won’t believe it.

Don’t feel quite like Jesus in this snowstorm. If I pass the next summit I would never hurl myself out in such a weather whole my life. It is impossible to see anything just a few feet away. So white everywhere. What if I pull over and stay till morning? Feel safer when speeding. Silent and static and dark till morning, too much to handle.

I don’t like strangers, Who he thinks he is? What is this strange accent, I am giving him a ride to Eureka, can’t he stop talking, asks for cigarette, man give me back my lighter.. you jackass. He thinks I am a cowboy which I’m not. Chinese ghosts? Of course, they are all over here, next time you see them passing hand in hand over the highway, do not hit them; wait till they pass.