samaa foq africa

"The bird gazed intently at the details of the map, trembling. The ocean surrounding Africa was colored with ink in the blue of a tearful winter sky at dawn, and the lines of longitude and latitude were not symmetrical lines of a compass, for the bold strokes of the brush had summoned the vicissitudes and whims of time. The continent itself resembled the skull of a man who had hanged his head, like a man with a large head and sad, drooping eyes gazing at Australia, the land of the koala, the platypus, the aquatic oviparous mammal, and the kangaroo. The miniature drawing of Africa showing the distribution of the population in the lower corner of the map resembled a dead head on its way to rotting, and another, sweating with roads, resembled a bare head with thin hairs displayed in a painful way. Both of these small Africans suggested an unnatural, abrupt, and violent death."