The Very Eye of Night
Maya Deren
The ultimate violence is paralysis.
481st Night
The tale of Abu al-Hasan and Abu Jafar the Leper - Abu al-Hasan regularly makes the Haji to Mecca and serves a guide for others on the road and to the water stations. One year he is minded to take the pilgrimage by himself. On the way he encounters a leper praying in the niche of a mosque. The sufferer from the black leprosy begs to be brought on his trip, but the man declines. The next day further down the road, al-Hasan encounters the same leper again in the prayer niche (the kiblah?) - much to his puzzlement. When he finds the leper once more the next day at Arafat, he throws himself down at the sick man’s feet and in tears begs for his company.
(Source: 1000nightsandanight)
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