The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine

The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine

Author:Rabih Alameddine [Alameddine, Rabih]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780802190116
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2016-03-21T16:00:00+00:00


Anger

My mother was angry once, I don’t remember the cause, just the manifestation, it was just one time, her madness was the quiet kind, usually she was the easiest person to get along with, swayed with the prevailing winds, built sand castles after a sandstorm, but that time she raged, took a kitchen knife to the cloth on every piece of furniture in her room, not the drapes, the throw blanket, or the carpet, but the earth-tone seats of three chairs, the headboard, the pillows, the sheets, the wool blanket, the bed skirt, and the mattress itself. In wild gestures, she swung the blade, slashing and stabbing and screaming incoherently, frantic demons possessed her being, and none of the household dared enter her room, we stood outside the door, my aunties and I, all of us quivering and quailing, all of us trying to talk her out of the insane destruction, until finally Auntie Badeea was able to pierce her fury, We’ll have to repair or replace all this before evening, Auntie Badeea said, let’s not add any more work. My mother halted the massacre, her delicately embroidered jellabiya had a diagonal tear from her left side to just above the belly button, no blood, though. Torn pieces of bedspread studded with shards of mirror lay on the floor.

She turned and faced us, I am still young, she said, her eyes confused at first, then guilty, her knife at her side, clutched fiercely, her hair Medusa, her demeanor Medea, my mother.



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