[pic]Everlasting Everlasting by Maroun Abboud The Epiphany[i] night is a fertile night, during which minds accommodate pregnant with dreams and desires, so they give birth to miracles and wonders, and be blessed, O benevolent. That night, Priest Nasrallah, the Khoury,[ii] sat down crossing his legs on the spank side of the fireplace, and in front of him his wife, the Khouriyyeh, squatted as though she were a basket of clothing. Frowning and mystified, the Khoury at prison terms combs his long sass with his fingers, and at other times stirs the fire and blows it, so that ashes take down in the attic, and most of them settle on his jubbah, his qawooq[iii]and on the rug, so the Khouriyyeh tightly closes her wrinkled mouth until it becomes as small as a ring. She remembers how much she scrubbed the Khourys clothes in order that he looks clean on the Epiphany day; she sighs, a word dances on her lips, then it disappears. She shakes her clothes and kerchief in a g rumble meant to be a scolding befitting the unfastidious reverend. Yet he doesnt c are. What was the Khoury thinking around at that hour? Was it about his n integrityxistent offspring? For he, and idol knows, has a faith that he is the son of the Church and one of her children who are one progeny to one father, Jesus Christ. It doesnt egress then whether or not he had children.
And, afterward all, what does a man in his eighties expect from a fair sex crawling towards her seventies? Were he secular,[iv] he would have expect death, the conflict resolver, but the Khouriyyeh is like a pine tree,[v] if get along dow n doesnt fool away what is confusing the K! houry then? And what is disorder him, he who is the absolute ruler, and the parish has notwithstanding to obey him? Do we learn that he, like ordinary people, believes in the passing of the Redeemer on Christian houses, and if, at the time of His passing, one is doing any ordinary work, if its a tight fitting deed then good for him, and if its a dreary deed then alike bad for him? All this is speculation. As for...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com
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