Scenes From a Broken Hand: My Birthday

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

My Birthday

...is not for several months, yet. But The Wife has "tagged" me with this birthday thing, so I'm complying by providing info here. But I'm not tagging others, because, frankly, I don't know any other bloggers personally, beyond The Wife and Her Sister.

Two memorable events taking place on October 10:
680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
1966 - Simon and Garfunkel release the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.

And three birthdays, besides mine:
1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate
1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)

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Scenes from a Broken Hand

CHESTER:
This monk I knew in Thailand... amazing man. He was always talking about these veils that stand between us and reality—and how you had to push them back to win the Hide and Seek.

JIM:
Hide and Seek?

MORDECAI:
It's a game, Pogo—the one I'm playing with myself—my real self, deep down.

CHESTER:
No, no. God, or the world, or whatever is out there, is playing it--with all of us. See, God is like this tremendous hand, and we, all of us, everything, are like the fingers. What God does is, he splits himself up into all these different parts, all these fingers: plants, fish, people, rocks—and then—this is the amazing part— he forgets! He forgets what he's done. He plays a game with himself, see? Hide and Seek! That's what the veils are for—so he can forget—so we can forget where it all came from. We see the fingers, but we never see the hand.

from Scenes From a Broken Hand,
a play by Andrew Ordover