I think I was hit with a sunstroke somewhere between Jeddah and the South of France, which caused me a fit of delirium and existential thoughts such as “I think therefore I am”. Well perhaps Monsieur Descartes beat me to that dictum, but under the glare of the sun and the beautiful women on the French Riviera I came up with an important amendment to said dictum which is : “I don't think therefore I am not”, or perhaps: “I doubt therefore perhaps I am”. Speaking of amendments, there was a Kuwaiti deputy who, when he heard about the law of gravity, immediately introduced a bill to amend it. Meanwhile, the Saudi man believes he has the right to lead the women's rights movement in his country. As for the Palestinian man, he does to his brother what he accuses Israel of doing to them both. We all share the same concerns in the East. However, I am in the West right now, having brought along with me the noon sun from Jeddah. All of this muddled the matters in my mind...For instance, I remember the old adage “He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword”, which I think should be amended to conform to modern life and become: “He who lives by the sword, dies by the gun”. Does this amended saying then represent the current situation of the Arabs, when we think of using the sword while our enemies think of using cluster bombs? In any case, I want to tell the reader: do not think, because everything important has already been thought up. When Antara bin Shaddad long ago said “Have the poets left any ruins [to lament]?” what can we ever have to say today that hasn't been already said since antiquity and olden times? I might even say to the reader: “do not even work, because every useful work has already been done by ancestors” If the reader does not agree with me on the above, perhaps he will agree with me when I say: “Forget the Middle East issue because you will not be able to resolve it, and when the light turns green, take your car and leave the road map for its people”. Speaking of roads, we all know that it is people in cars who cause accidents. However, the amendment of this fact would read something like: it is accidents (in the back seat) of the car that cause people. While my thoughts could have been jumbled because of the sun, – and I have suffered from such a situation in the past and wrote about it during the summer – my memory is still strong, least due to myself, and mostly because of how much I heard and memorized: - Improve your memory; lend money to your friends. - If you always say the truth, then you don't need a good memory. - Why is there no index in the dictionary? - Why do they not invent a water-resistant towel? - Is there a book that teaches reading? - If you do not succeed the first time, do not try to eject out of the plane again. - All my woollen clothes shrink in the rain. Why do sheep not shrink in the rain then? - Take up resolutions that you can actually do such as: I will gain ten kilos [of weight], or I will continue smoking. - Absurd is any opinion that is different from yours. - Advertisements in the papers are all false, but they are the most truthful items in a newspaper since the latter only conveys news from liars. - Have you ever thought that what the neighbours say about us is true? In other words: did you ever think that we might actually deserve our reputation? - Talk is cheap unless you resort to a lawyer. - Shock therapy is to see the doctor's bill. - Yesterday I dreamt I was asleep. I want to pause here to say I that am trying to joke with the reader, and if I manage to get a smile or two from him, then this is – in my opinion – better than my or his opinion about the peaceful solution, especially that there is no solution anyway. I am writing from Monaco, where girls go looking for husbands and husbands go looking for girls. Finally, I will conclude my article with a philosophical issue like I began. In the drawings and images used in the West, and in Hollywood movies, it seems that our Father Adam and our Mother Eve were very beautiful. If it is so, then where did ugly people come from? In any case, the scorching sun is in the sky, or perhaps, it is right in my face.
