Mahmoud Darwish: I am from there

I am from there and I have memories. Like any other
Man I was born. I have a mother,
A house with several windows, friends and brothers.
I have a prison cell's cold window, a wave
Snatched by the seagulls, my own view, a blade
Of extra grass, a moon beyond all words,
A deathless olive tree and bounteous birds.
I walked and crossed the land before the cross
Of swords served banquets where its body was.

I come from there, and I return the sky
To its mother when it cries for her, and cry
For a cloud on its return
To recognize me. I have learned
Every word worthy of blood's court to break
The grammar, have learned all the words to take
The lexicon apart for one word's sake,
The one word I must make:Homeland.

translated by : A.Z. Foreman

Alice in Real Life !!

I think  most of us know the story of Alice the girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world. But did you ever imagine that Alice could be a real person? she was a real girl.I

The author of ' Alice Adventure in a Wonderland' Lewis Carroll was a good freind of Henry Liddel family, and Alice was the daugther of this family .she had a great influence on lewis writing. he was for many years widely assumed to have derived his own'Alice' from Alice Liddell .

this are some photos of the real Alice (all photographed by Lewis Carroll):I