#tattooed memory

[majestativa]

I lived, untouchable, in the chanted solitude of my being.

— Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tattooed Memory, transl by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

The cruelty of desire.

— ABDELKEBIR KHATIBI ⚜️ Tattooed Memory, transl. by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

I saw her as a cross between fleeing time and the surprises of innocence. She lived and slept in silence.

— Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tattooed Memory, transl by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

Say: I am dying of mad passion and I’ve lost the veil, trying to reach passion’s wings; say: my pen flies away at the shock of the sand ruins, and may the earth tremble!

— ABDELKEBIR KHATIBI ⚜️ Tattooed Memory, transl. by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

I wrote because it was the only way to disappear from the world, to pull back from chaos, to hone myself for solitude. I believed in the fate of the dead, so why not wed myself to the cycle of my own eternity?

— Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tattooed Memory, transl by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

The void invades me, memory vanishes, lightning flash of a definitive immobility.

— Abdelkebir Khatibi, Tattooed Memory, transl by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

Poetry: my criminal lands where my wound carved itself.

— ABDELKEBIR KHATIBI ⚜️ Tattooed Memory, transl. by Peter Thompson, (2016)

[majestativa]

Worse than an unexpected knife: abduction of the mind.

— ABDELKEBIR KHATIBI ⚜️ Tattooed Memory, transl. by Peter Thompson, (2016)