Me: A7a!
W.: Men ana? (Who, me?)
Me: no, not you! The Post-structuralism!
W. is my Egyptian colleague. Everyday we send each other an email around twelve saying: Sigara sawa?(sigarette together?) and we organize our Egyptian coffehouse in the university courtyard.
He brings me coffee and offers me his red Malboros and we spend our time on the bench, chatting, laughing, recounting our days in Cairo and the new life in Norway. Sometimes we have guests, so we spend even more time.
Actually in those days we were dreaming of our next week in Paris: shopping in the duty free and in the city centre, sightseeing and...sleeping during the conference talks. Wa ana maly bel structuralism, yani! (I don't give a damn about structuralism!)
But yesterday he told me: I was told I have to comment about A.'s paper, something about Japanese religion.
Ahahahahah, i told him. While I'll be enjoying the view from the Eiffel Tower.
Today I opened my mail and i found a message sent by our research coordinator in which she says that...
I have to prepare a 10 minute comment on the use of Post-structural literary theory in a presentation about "science fiction in Indian Literature". I have no clue about structuralism, imagine about post-structuralism! And since when Indians have been writing literature, and science fiction!!!! (joking, joking!)
Me: A7a, a2ollohom eh, yani?(What am I going to say, then?)
W.: Ayye kalam, wa ana a2ol sa7 wa asaf! (Anything, and I say that you're right and I clap!)...
From the top of the Eiffel Tower!!!
[Della serie, "chi sfott riman sfuttut." ]
Puveriella! Io però uno scrittore indiano di fantascienza lo conosco! Si chiama Jaiant Narlikar, non ho letto manco una sua storia, ma in un periodo di intrippamento per la relatività e le teorie cosmologiche ho letto alcune sue teorie e mi colpì il fatto che era uno scienziato ma aveva scritto dei libri di fantascienza.
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