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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying it. Bachir had a lovely voice, one that was already that of a man. He knew many poems by heart. He lovingly recited Victor Hugo, with warmth Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre, and poems written by young people going into battle; he then moved on to the poets of liberty - Rimbaud again, Eluard, and Desnos.