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Prelude to a Blackout
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Prelude to a Blackout The peddler rolls his cart to another part of town. The bee, stumbling from a cloud of teargas, burns in the garden. Yet the city at twilight reveals flickers of hope. In the twenty-first century, the greatest revolutions are fought via satellite. As the crescent moon reddens to mark the day’s freshly scrubbed streets, television beams into homes made of mud, anointing postmodern cave dwellers with its secret of fire. Perhaps Mohammad, a man sick of the world selling the soul through illusion, could see beyond commercial hypocrisy, and into the nature of things. Assume that the omnipresent Allah (all praise and glory to his name) appears to people in the medium that best captures the spirit of the age. Picture amidst so many images of sex on sale the viewer becoming a channel for the divine, a momentary frame of reality compelling believers to raise swords against a sea of falsely bearded men who come with scissors to cut the wires. 32 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...