Fady Joudah

Of course, I'm not the first one to wonder about this because other people have written sequence books without titles and so forth.

But then, you know, having already been thinking about this, I had the older file called, titled Bookmaker.

You know, this whole idea of like, is this a...

you know, progress for the poem?

Or is it actually corruption of it?

I don't think that Shakespeare titled his sonnets or even numbered them.

I don't know.

Or, you know, and so forth.

And so I just, with the monstrosity of what was happening, which was, of course, for a Palestinian, something you knew from a kid, because you're watching your life marked by these kinds of violences after violences, that I just...

couldn't be bothered with naming.

Yeah.

Because obviously naming goes to an extent where, you know, we begin with naming, you know, the Adamic naming and so forth.

And it's good for a while and then it turns into hell.

Yeah.

You know, so I was tired of naming.

Were we going to close with that one?

You sure?

Yeah.

We're talking about this.

Okay.