to make a song insults the Qu'ran or the Bible
to be accused of doing so
to be arrested for doing so
to have done it or not done it
to know or not know
that to do so is to sing freely
that to do so is to sing freedom
Douglas Barbour
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Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
Walter Benjamin
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