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The Blind Water by Iraqi Writer/Storyteller Hassan Blasim

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A Section from the Blind Water  Originally written in Arabic by the Iraqi Writer/Storyteller and poet:  Hassan Balasim  Translation To English by: Bedor Alobaidi  Hassan Blasim/Iraqi Writer, Storyteller. poet and cinema script writer A few days ago, I received a letter from a disturbed writer explaining contemporary writing in a religious tone. I think the man's heart breaks a pain in the way how I write sperm. I also guessed that he is one of the peaceful writers who writes in order to enter the Academy of Clean Arabic Writing. Pure, and well mashed in a grammar mills. I think the man is a loyal language guard with an honest intention. I don't know what the language and the rest of the holy cows would be like without these writers. I think that if I left things for a writer like me, they would milk the cow to the last drop and slaughter it in the middle of the afternoon in front of the slaves.  What really bothered me in his letter was his medical tone, as what the wounds of t