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Created: 2012-12-12 00:40  |  Updated: 2012-12-12 00:59  |  Source: mobile.iphone
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I'm walking home Tuesday to tie a good bunch of burky tie-offs today. I've been off, haven't been dictating, but I've been sick. I've got sick trying to rehearse for the song for the Jolyman Beach party. I don't know if that's going to happen, but anyway. Yeah, I started once again trying to approach this from a plot and a narrative that can frame the story. I love Rose and Sheree's letters. It definitely has. I think I've come up with the story that's kind of duly narrated. One chapter after chapter will be alternating or it could have one part. I'm not sure. The two characters in the story are Victor and Amina. Victor is, I don't necessarily want to call him an archaeologist, but he's a scholar who participates. He participates in excavations and Egypt. He's a nice house that he's acquired for himself, perhaps maybe the villa that he rents. I'm not sure. He will run into Amina because she will have tried to take shelter in a storage room of the villa. When she thought he had left, and of course he discovers her on his way back from the airport where he decides to stop. He's not going to fight the crowds and actually stay a little bit longer. I think Victor's motivations are that he was on sabbatical. He doesn't have to return for this spring semester. The revolution and the political upheaval in Egypt is only important to him in terms of what happens to the antiquities and doesn't really care about any kind of changing hands. He doesn't care about the religious beliefs that the people did. The current regime, the ones they don't touch, interpret this. So, he's completely uninterested in the religions. He's only interested in ancient Egypt. There's much more to be learned in the coming years from studying ancient Egyptian history than trying to learn Arabic. He's studying Islam and history. He's simply completely out of the table. He and others have had, he remembers quite jokingly. He's attended excavations in the past where they literally didn't care about any kind of material culture that they found until they reached ancient Egypt. I need to find some evidence of that. Anyway, his intentions are to essentially by both studying ancient Egypt and living it. He wants to ignore the present and the past is where the imagination begins is where the, where everyone's presumed identity begins. He doesn't think to say that. He's a royalty, but it's another to say that you descend from Egyptian royalty. I wish that were the kids. He's also an orphaned, a fortune's liberty because in some ways he's kind of, the world of here and now has not helped him in any way. When he meets Amina, he meets another individual who has decided to help herself. Amina knows, is not an orphan, but she knows who her parents are. Her parents left her. I sold her in some marriage, 13, or I don't believe in that maybe, or older, to which she was divorced after one day. She ran away from home because that life was simply, she couldn't tolerate, she couldn't stand, thought of living among the people who sold her. And she wandered on her own for a while. She, I don't know if she could have stayed at the house of the friends or not because she would have had to. She could have, we could meet that a short day, but she lived on the streets until she found someone who could help her. She, she, she had friends with a newbie and woman. This woman, they kind of took care of each other and protected, looked after each other. She asked her underfitting one needed to have some health cream. She eventually found a job, taking someone's health that they beat her. She ran away from, from them. This story, story of complete another defeat. So, after her husband, she left one house. She said, what happened? She ran away and she was in a cardboard box. She said, what happened? Well, I thought I was talking about Victor's story and everything, but look down on him. She learned to be daring. Eventually, the sides to become the caretaker of a blind man. Perhaps a man of no-time, I don't know one of the two. He, uh, rates are two. I don't know if I can get that far. I'm taking shelter in Victor's shed.