Nada Khalifa
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Cairo, Egypt
About
Idle curiosity is an ineradicable vice of the human mind. All of us like to discover the secrets of our neighbors, particularly the ugly ones. - Auden
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
- William Carlos Williams
When Norsemen heard thunder,
did they seriously believe
Thor was hammering?
No, I'd say: I'd swear
that men have always lounged in myths
as Tall Stories,
that their real earnest
has been to grant excuses
for ritual actions.
Only in rites
can we renounce our oddities
and be tru