MEMBER BLOG TAG: arthur koestler
| Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:35AM | | | | "Because Writers Speak Their Minds" | Tags: PEN, freedom of expression, Arthur Koestler, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
| | | 50 Years of Defending Freedom of Expression
I’m staring straight into the sun lighting up the sky in shades of pink before it sets. I watch it slowly losing altitude behind a building near the World Bank. The yellow globe is sinking into the river, into the trees of Virginia across the Potomac. I am typing without looking at the page, my eyes fixed on the sun which I want to keep in the sky. For some reason I feel frantic to keep staring at the sun, hoping it won’t disappear. But in the time it has taken to write these few sentences, it has already lost half its sphere and is now only a diameter on the horizon. Soon it will be dark. I keep writing. I... | | | | | |
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