“Watching the developments from afar was both an exercise of academic speculation and resignation to the finitude of one’s capabilities; an opportunity to tend to one’s neuroses in the privacy of one’s secret garden; an acquiescence to impotence and an acknowledgement of the limits of the pen.”

“Watching the developments from afar was both an exercise of academic speculation and resignation to the finitude of one’s capabilities; an opportunity to tend to one’s neuroses in the privacy of one’s secret garden; an acquiescence to impotence and an acknowledgement of the limits of the pen.”

— Farish A. Noor