current reading: My People Shall Live, Leila Khaled

[sabotabby]

Ummm...

I did not just tear up at the description of nine-year-old Leila giving her kitten a Muslim burial.

I did not.

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[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Liar.

*adding to my Amazon wish list*

[sabotabby]

Good luck with that. It's been out of print for awhile and most available copies are prohibitively expensive. Which is a pity; it's wonderful so far.

[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. My Amazon list is mostly a "keep it in mind when you go to the used bookstore" list, anyway. :)

[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

Awww.

[sabotabby]

I'm just a big mush-bag.

[aerope4.livejournal.com]

A proper Muslim burial would involve washing the corpse. According to my cat, that is the only state in which it is permissible to give him a bath.

[sabotabby]

Damn straight! Marinetti agrees with your cat, despite evidence to the contrary.

[aerope4.livejournal.com]

Hah--brilliant! A wet pussy.

[finding-rowan.livejournal.com]

**snickers** Those pictures will never get old! Poor Marinetti.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

That's making me go all gooey on the inside too.

[sabotabby]

The rest of the story is also fantastic. I may have to post it.

[uberbitsch.livejournal.com]

Please do!

They've got lots of Mid-eastern and Islamic bookshops around Tottenham Court Road. I might try trawling through one of them for it.

[sabotabby]

I somehow must procure my own copy.

I may ask Leila herself...

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

you mean freedom fighters have feelings?

damn.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

Of coure not silly. The story is just propaghanda to make it to appear so.

[sabotabby]

Lies! All lies!

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

*stares at the copy on the bookshelf and yet again wonders if the library replacement fine would be less than the cost a copy from amazon, and which would be more ethical*

[sabotabby]

::iconlove::

The cheapest copy on Amazon is $54 American funny-money, and it's not as though Amazon is the paragon of ethics.

Still, I appreciate that no one stole it from the University of Toronto library, since that's the copy I'm reading right now. (And will give back, as it's on my friend's card.)

[accusehistory.livejournal.com]

The text is available online.... :)

http://www.onepalestine.org/resources/articles/My_People_Shall_Live.html

[enile.livejournal.com]

thank you! when i find time, or rather, space of mind, i will read this...

eline

[sabotabby]

This would have saved everyone so much trouble...

Still, you can't read teh interwebs on a streetcar. (I suppose you can if you have a laptop, but ugh.)

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks for that! Bookmarked for future reading!

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

The cheapest copy on Amazon is $54 American funny-money, and it's not as though Amazon is the paragon of ethics.

I found it for $45 on Abe Books which is an world-wide, on-line network of mom & pop bookstores, if that helps. Unfortunately, the shipping from Beirut, Lebanon would probably make it more expensive, albeit cooler.

[sabotabby]

I think I raise enough suspicion as is. ;)

[felicks.livejournal.com]

You must return it!

[lopukhov.livejournal.com]

Tear the magnetic strip out of the spine, smuggle the sucker out, and tell the library that the copy that they were supposed to have is missing and you really need it for the class you're teaching next semester, so will they please get a new copy?

[accusehistory.livejournal.com]

if it's out of print, they might not replace it

[ridemycamel.livejournal.com]

I found a copy of that book in our campus library...took it out and got halfway through but had to stop as I was sick and tired of Palestinian issues at the time to be honest, and needed a break from it.

It's a good book...very...radical...but interesting.

[sabotabby]

It's slightly difficult to read "imperialist enemy" without irony, even when one agrees with the politics. I'm pretty into it so far, though.

[rote.livejournal.com]

I'd cry too. A lot.

:(

[sabotabby]

I bet it was a cute kitten, too. Middle Eastern kitties be that way.

[rote.livejournal.com]

I saw a kitten die once. It wasn't easy to watch. I wanted to give her/him a little bit of my life so they could live. But I left my kit at home. :(

[sabotabby]

I need a kit like that.

[lokust.livejournal.com]

off topic...
but have you been able to talk to s. about cat yet?

[sabotabby]

Eeek -- not yet. No luck elsewhere?

[sabotabby]

Update: I just saw Sara. She jumped up and down and was all, "SQUEEEE! KITTEH!" which means, I think, that she wants him. She's moving May 1st, and apparently any time after the 3rd is good. (If it's an emergency, I can take him until then.) She also wants to know if she needs to buy a litterbox or any cat paraphernalia. But kitty's definitely a go from her end.

[lokust.livejournal.com]

jenn has two litterboxes, a carrier, toys, food bowl, and sundries for kirby.
we will definitely be getting up there after may 3rd.
(do you have sara's email address, or number, so jenn or i can get in touch?)
<3!! !
(and thank you thank you thank you!)

[sabotabby]

She doesn't do teh interwebs. E-mail me and I'll give you her cell number.

[(Anonymous)]

Good kitty! Good kitty! I knew that this kitty would taste great with a nice dressing and salad on the side.

[sabotabby]

Feck off, ya wanker.

Oh, and happy birthday. ;)