Word: pains
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...book is not pure pain. Antoon also sings of love. In the beautiful "Phantasmagoria II," he writes: "Your lips/ Are a pink butterfly/ Flying/ From one word/ To another/ I run after them/ In gardens of silence." Again, there's no sign that our Romeo is roaming the streets of Baghdad. Instead, Antoon has turned the sick city into a mirror of the world at large, where desire and disaster are never far apart...
Gain with No Pain...
...Turkey rage. The tide has turned globally in favor of the frank acknowledgement of all the horrors that took place in the chaos of World War I. Even if this resolution serves as a mere symbol of solidarity, one may hope that its weight might counteract the indelible pain of almost a century of impunity and silence...
...garner easy laughs; for instance, David claims that his biggest problem is that he is “a shmuck.” Mogolov’s portrayal of David’s lethargy was amusingly self-deprecating; although he did not have the weight of a deeply rooted pain to portray, he mastered David’s laziness with the nonchalant delivery of his jokes...
...higher meaning, his characters always conceive of Vietnam as a metaphor. They never recognize it as being what it is, but rather as a symbol for something else. It becomes a place of tunnels and labyrinths, where lost souls roam. It becomes a hell full of demonic pleasure and pain, but is not recognized as humid, foreign, gritty Vietnam long enough for it to become a concrete place.Perhaps Johnson is trying to make a statement about how humans think in metaphor, that we are not literal beings. But, like his portrayal of Vietnam, that conception of thinking rings hollow...