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Human in the LoopJonathan Harrell’s Commonplace Book

“When you grow up, my son,
and read the volumes of Arabic poetry,
you will know that the word and the tear are sisters
and that the Arabic poem
is but a tear shed from the tips of the fingers” A Lesson in Drawing by Nizar Qabbani, translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar, excerpt