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9/23/01 10:49 am
Dear Love, I have not responded to you re the web site on the horrors of 911 mainly because I am out of words to express my feelings and thoughts. Yours is a wonderful step towards healing and coming to grips with a changed world -- not just in New York but everywhere. Given my international connections in some 60 countries, I have received genuine messages of sympathy and hope from each of my colleagues. This helps, but it also brings home the fact that there are men filled with hatred and evil that will not stop at anything to destroy life anywhere they choose. My only hope is that somehow a new generation of human species will emerge in time that can respect and appreciate the different ways we live, think and feel. This is a permanent process and will not have a nice and shiny conclusion. Without that hope, however, we might as well pack our things and our loved ones, re-enter the caves and kill anyone that comes near. For our sake and yours, keep writing and making music. That is the measure of your human-ness and your special gift to members of our species. Grieve we must but also work hard to realize the hope for peace and tolerance. D. [most of you know this is my beloved father, who was born in Tiflis and grew up in Teheran. I have been reading Thomas Friedman's excellent book, From Beirut to Jerusalem, and last night was reading about the idea of the Levantine, which was of course effectively destroyed in Beirut. I believe my father is a Levantine in the best sense, and perhaps we should aspire to Levantinism...] |
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