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...Hamzanama. But with the advent of modern printing presses, the complexity and poetical phrasing of the dastan - so perfect by the flickering light of a fire and before a richly colored canvas - began to seem affected, if not a little odd, set down in stark, black-and-white text. Amir Hamza needed to breathe the air of a premodern era - "when rational people could still sit and listen to a storyteller," as Memon puts it, "and believe in djinn and spirits...
...Farooqi decided to heed the call. But instead of tackling all 46 volumes of an 1883 text - which he knew nobody would read in its entirety - he decided to tackle a blend of two shorter versions: the 1855 rendering by the Urdu poet Ghalib Lakhnavi, and an 1871 text by the Urdu scholar Abdullah Bilgrami, who took Lakhnavi's edition and added various flourishes and refrains to restore its original bardic character. Even so, Farooqi's translation is almost a thousand pages in total. It was a Herculean labor. "When I looked at the first page," Farooqi confesses, "I thought...
...best invention of 2007, you forgot about Windows-based PDA phones [Nov. 12]. They've been out for years. Touch interface? Big deal. As you noted, it's been done before. A miniaturized operating system? Done. Windows-based phones are everything the iPhone is and more. The phones can text, MMS, e-mail (through POP, IMAP, Exchange), surf the real Web at broadband speed on EVDO networks and open, edit and save documents. The iPhone is for kids. Windows Mobile PDA phones are for adults who need to do real work...
...able to sell it to me despite her declaration that not owning it “was a shame, because that’s one good book to have.†I took her words to heart and began my quest to understand an essential literary text. My mother was slightly confused by my desire to delve into the goyim’s good book, but I explained that I wanted to know more about a book which meant so much to so many people. She accepted that response until we received a phone call a few weeks later...
...mean to say that this production should have provided an answer. The music and dance evoke the metaphysical uncertainty of Prospero’s island in some terrific ways. Still, a mood is not an intellectual stance. “The Tempest,†as a text, is so experimental and so daring that I cannot understand why this production seemed to be unwilling to wrestle with Shakespeare’s many suggestive questions...