The shelter of absence is a place built of words. Everyone in it belongs to the world of his imagination, and lives in a state of obsessions and doubts. A scientist who surrenders to ambiguity and hieroglyphs and loves the mercury of impermanence and uncertainty. In this shelter, we do not know whether what we read are the preparations of the goddess of talisman, or if they are the same as the preparations of others. We do not know whether to believe her or to believe in the suffering writers who create themselves with the power of language and invent worlds and selves with words.
In “The Shelter of Absence,” we read about the wreckage of events and people, and about the brewing panic of perishing cities, in stories that belong to the imagination and the grotesque, as much as they derive from the devastation that occurs in reality as material for writing.
Critic Dr. Mohamed Al-Shahat believes that the narrative of “The Shelter of Absence” builds “on constructing an imaginative journey, with successive episodes, that questions the concepts of space, time, and human existence. In doing so, it searches for the essence of human communication beyond “language” in its common sense.”
Adam rubs his old rust with the blade of a knife. He scratches the space with tremendous instinctive force. After a period of time has passed since the absence of a second person, the open space has become grayer, and different from what Adam imagined. Here he walks alone, but the old noise still haunts him. A mythical being lives under his skin, making him rub his hands and rub them. His eyelids, he wants to see the light hitting the body of the night with the blade of the knife, and the knife does not seem bold when faced with the thickness of the bohemian bellows that strikes it.
Adam declares, the wires extending from under the neck to the edge of the shoulder are swollen, his face appears congested with blood and the red color invades his place. Adam is now thinking about the crow that hovers around his head, crowing with a sound like the horn of an old freight vehicle. He had previously been told that seeing a crow in the belly of the sky is an omen. It was ominous, so his senses trembled and he turned to the notebooks of the past, and questions abounded in his head.
For great ideas by a pen. In the beginning, science, knowledge, and beliefs were one unit in which magic was mixed with art, craft, and religion. In the Middle Ages, scientists combined several specializations. For example, Ibn Sina was a doctor, philosopher, and poet in one. But with the progress of science in the modern era, specialization increased, and each science became independent in itself. University study is more and more specialized in a specific field, to the point that we find that the medical student does not know much about philosophy, and the philosophy student knows only a little about the sciences. With the increasing requirements of difficult and complex economic life and the increasing pressures, students’ interest is focused on obtaining good grades in the university class to increase their chances of obtaining a degree. Only work, and with the pressures of work itself, there was no longer time for reading, and little by little general culture lost its worthy advantage, which was the one that gave the individual great benefits. Getting acquainted with the various humanities enriches the individual in mind and spirit, as the innovative ability of the mind is enhanced by combining the various sciences, and it also gives it a human character because it He became convinced that human values are absolute and very broad, which expands his view of life and through them he realizes that there is no single perspective on the difficulties he faces in life. As we comprehend the vastness of human thought, we realize that daily problems are nothing but a simple thing compared to the vast, endless, expanding world. The effect of this is the effect of seeing the infinite sea or desert. Then you will know that the horizons of life are vast and do not depend on the limited, private, narrow daily life and the prison of the self. Hence the importance of this book appears, as it covers various general intellectual fields: philosophy, religion, science, politics, economics, sociology, psychology, arts. This book is distinguished in that it explains the essential terms and ideas in these fields, so at the end By reading each chapter, the reader develops a comprehensive and profound knowledge in one area of the basics of each field, which saves us from having to read many books in many fields to understand them, or perhaps opens his appetite to follow what is new in each field in all its details and details. The book is also distinguished by the fact that all the terms in it are classified in the form of a dictionary. This makes it easier for the reader to recognize any term