Bells
Written by Fahed El Khelioui
The bells of fifty years old tinkled a moment ago. Between the noise of a bell and another, a smooth quiver resided in the middle of a long play maintained by two sticks: one a comic and the other a tragedy. This night, he was annoyed. He wished it would rain, weting the ground and picking the skeletons of crushed cars, the unwanted pieces of wood, and the large quantity of empty cans scattered at the roadsides. He dreamed that it rained so that the rain brought back the sentiment of the old memories. Then, He drove his car towards the south of the city. In the sky, stars aligned in an exact order, adjusted a luminous collar that quickly scattered in the middle of the white clouds, that dispersed like a piece of cotton, paving the way to a very remote light to passage through its cold gaps.
The old neighbourhoods, in the south of the city, piled up like small sand dunes, and filled the place with a fragrant mixed of quietness and peace. The places in these neinghbourhoods, which are coming from wasted time, had a resplendent presence in his memory. He crossed a lane, which led him into his old neighbourhood. Here is the neighbourhood's mosque, and out of its wooden gate, there are two coffins rested as if they were there since eternity. Then, there is the coffee of Abdo Al-Yamani, who left the country to settle in Yemen a few years ago, after selling the coffee to an Indian. He progressed in the neighbourhood to reach his small house. The residence which he has left for thirty years because he was unable to pay the rent. The owner gave him two days notice to find another house.
At that time, he went to seek for tens of empty cartons, scattered in front of the grocery stores to box his books. He put the other stuff: a yellow bronze teapot, an old electric heating, diluted glass, mattress of a low sponge, pens, a flute, and a cassette of Fairouz' songs and another of Faouzi Mahsoun, in a small bag.
Then, he started by boxing the large books. "Being and nothingness" needs a carton (freedom is before the existence, nothingness is out of the existence). Sartre is a writer and an artist more than a philosopher and theorist. These two volumes: "The Decline of West"by Spengler needs more than one carton ( The city wasn't the embryo of a civilization. The inhabitants of the cities repeated the life and the death in a monotonous way, and they did not have any relationship with the creation of civilizations).How?!
The deadline to pay rent will shortly finish, and you are reading without having the answer from this large encyclopedist! Whereas "Thus Zarathoustra spoke" has fewer pages, so it could be boxed with the other books. Nietzsche is a great philosopher who does not have an equal.
He stopped growling, and started to arrange the books by size: the largest, the middle and finally the smallest. He carried these astonishing cartons, and his small bag; and then, he left this neighbourhood for about thirty years. Recalling this memory, his heart was filled with sad and melancholic rhythms. He felt that his memory ignited, and dissolved space and time as it transformed one time lost into counted minutes. He drove his car towards the main road, then he took the road which led to the sea. Over there, he remained upright on the beach listening to the growl of the sea.
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