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Abu Saeed
Fiction
The dragon kite
Short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
November 20, 1999
The Iranian
No, there was no hope, and he must have that kite. Imagine letting the
string slowly roll from your hand and the wind lift the kite up; faster
and faster the string will roll, and the kite will rise near the sun, glittering.
He knew exactly how to tug and pull to get the kite higher and higher;
there will be music in the air, the kite playing against the wind, and
all the angels in heaven will gather to hear the music and see the kite;
they will all ask who was flying that beautiful dragon kite so high in
the sky, and he will hide behind the huge stones and grape vines. Nobody
will see him, but they will know someone who really can fly a kite was
mastering the string. His older sister might tell on him, but she could
be bribed with a couple of multicolored rooster candies.
"Are you still thinking about it?" the old man asked, smiling.
"I will buy it all right," he replied, fire inside his eyes
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November 19, 1999
AN IRANIAN Socrates, Abdollah Nouri challenged the clerical establishment
in discourse, knowing that it would lead to (political) death ... Mr Nouri
does indeed pose a threat to Iranian conservatism. No other politician,
apart from President Muhammad Khatami, can influence so broad a section
of the electorate. As a cleric himself, he stands inside and outside the
system. In six days of giving evidence, he changed the nature of the trial,
opening the window of debate to the most sensitive of all Iranian issues:
the place of religion. Reaffirming his call for an "Islam of love",
he argued that religious practice should be voluntary: "You cannot
enforce the veil with clubs and batons," he told the Special Court
for Clergy hearing his case. "You cannot claim religion is limited
to your own particular understanding of it." ... FULL
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