To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes: "Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes." It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Darfur Atrocities -- "Kill the Slaves, Kill the Blacks"
Abd al-Rahman, Age 13
I am looking at the sheep in the wadi [riverbed, or oasis]. I see Janjaweed coming-quickly, on horses and camels, with Kalashnikovs-shooting and yelling, kill the slaves, kill the blacks. They killed many of the men with the animals. I saw people falling on the ground and bleeding. They chased after children. Some of us were taken, some we didnt see again. All our animals were taken: camels, cows, sheep, and goats. Then the planes came and bombed the village.
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