{"id":7005,"date":"2011-10-08T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2011-10-08T08:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T12:01:26","slug":"tengour-ordeal-by-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/tengour-ordeal-by-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tengour: Ordeal by Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>In its latest issue EOAGH published<\/p>\n

from: Ordeal by Bow, by Habib Tengour (translated by\u00a0Pierre Joris<\/strong>\u00a0…<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u00a0(\u2026) We’d wall ourselves into these beer halls \u2014 the Ya -Sin Brewery, the Peepers, Chez Abu Nuwas, the Four Arts \u2014 close by the\u00a0…<\/strong>
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below, an extract; for the full text go here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019d wall ourselves into these beer halls \u2014 the Ya-Sin Brewery, the Peepers, Chez\u00a0Abu Nuwas, the Four Arts \u2014 close by the university, or into the Eighth Wonder, a\u00a0passable dive where the kemia were varied, not far from the National Library, very\u00a0late after legal closing hours. Every evening the same evening\u2026<\/p>\n

The curtain drawn on an acrid intimacy: a sort of accord of accolades, breathless\u00a0kisses and repeated slaps on the belly, hahaha, and more cuddling and embracing, and\u00a0on top of that, affable arguments. A vigorous joviality was the sign that we liked each\u00a0other well and that life was good all said and done\u2026 Intemperate boars. We were\u00a0lazily wasting away among the sour smells of alcohol and urine, the stench of vomit,\u00a0the room\u2019s tobacco saturated atmosphere, the foggy brouhaha\u2026 Intoxicated\u00a0tremolos.<\/p>\n

It was enjoyable disgust, ongoing, in spirals\u2026<\/p>\n

The head foundered, full, it reeled in technicolor, it emerged with one detail blown up,\u00a0bizarrely questioning, and it would then disappear, soothed, up the gurgling gut. The\u00a0eyes would fill with tears, hot tears voluptuously coiling up. It was a liberation into an\u00a0ephemeral flowering in the suave mist: it made rainbows capping the city like at the\u00a0lion\u2019s wedding.<\/p>\n

Fringed silk scarfs.<\/p>\n

\u2026 The wall paintings \u2014 still lives, imaginary flora, hunting tableaus, portraits of\u00a0enticing women, polished allegories, scenes from a\u00a0mauresque<\/em>\u00a0Paris, hodgepotch of\u00a0fishermen\u2019s stuff, tattoos, etcetera \u2014 screamed their idiotic naiveness, pretentiously\u00a0claiming to brazenly manage an artistic ideal gathered from some magazine. Certainly\u00a0these paintings were inspired, given that the artist was paid with free drinks; still, they\u00a0remained conceptually mediocre. They did not manage to translate for the spectator\u00a0that exalting thirst of the privileged moment that saw them being born. Demented\u00a0daubs.<\/p>\n

And yet they forced our gaze into a contemplation as absurd as it was rich in harsh,\u00a0unpredictable emotions. The dreaming eye always disconcerted, even though dozing.\u00a0These paintings were signed and dedicated to a favorite mistress: A\u00efcha, Georgette, to\u00a0the loving and Unique mother \u2014 majestic Pi\u00e9ta \u2014 or to time\u2019s rigorous treason. Ogre\u00a0Cronos dreams of crocs.<\/p>\n

Depths, long and large, ah! Time! Time! Always!<\/p>\n

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