That face has not been made here yet, Shamsher Ali
[03-10-2006]
Many words weave a space together. If a string is removed from a woven mat, the mat does not weaken. But the missing string is immediately visible. This is exactly how it is when there is an absence of certain words.
Usually, when one sees four people having gathered and chatting, one knows they are doing “time-pass”. But words like time-pass, getting bored have not taken seed in Ghevra yet. Here, seeing four people together indicates something serious is being discussed. Seeing a group like this, people passing by unhesitatingly try to join in the conversations by standing near or far from the group.
Many words weave a space together. If a string is removed from a woven mat, the mat does not weaken. But the missing string is immediately visible. This is exactly how it is when there is an absence of certain words.
Usually, when one sees four people having gathered and chatting, one knows they are doing “time-pass”. But words like time-pass, getting bored have not taken seed in Ghevra yet. Here, seeing four people together indicates something serious is being discussed. Seeing a group like this, people passing by unhesitatingly try to join in the conversations by standing near or far from the group.
If society creates a context for us to meet, it is society which also asks us questions. What were you doing out of the home late into the night? Why are you keeping company with those boys? Questions like this wander around us from time to time; they instruct us and our behaviour. Whose face is it which asks us such questions? The face never makes a clear appearance before us. We come to accept within us that, yes, it is not good to be outside the house after midnight. Instructions seep inside us and dwell there. They begin to flower within us; we begin to create contours of that instructing face which was hazy. The argument with ones self continues.
In its process today, Ghevra has expelled the word 'vagrant'. No one seems to be just wandering about, neither does an older person call a young man vagrant.
The echo of time can be heard even in someone's rebuke or scolding. To include the word vagrant in its vocabulary, this place will have to access its passed time, and to recreate it. Many things will have to be forgotten, and many recollected.
After all, words are tied to the time of a place; and not a place and its time to words.
In its process today, Ghevra has expelled the word 'vagrant'. No one seems to be just wandering about, neither does an older person call a young man vagrant.
The echo of time can be heard even in someone's rebuke or scolding. To include the word vagrant in its vocabulary, this place will have to access its passed time, and to recreate it. Many things will have to be forgotten, and many recollected.
After all, words are tied to the time of a place; and not a place and its time to words.
comments
No new comments allowed (anymore) on this post.