Said is taking refuge in Nur’s apartment. While Nur is out to work the chapter is dominated by Said’s interior monologue. His seeing Nur get ready and go off to work triggers a train of reflection of Nabawiyya. Towards the end of the chapter Nur returns and the two exchange small talk over dinner. The chapter closes with “a moth overhead made love to a light bulb in the dead of the night”(p 228 ). This quote could be a metaphor for the act of love making between Said and Nur. It is up to the reader to decide who is the light bulb and who is the moth.
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Tags: Interior Monologue, Nabawiyya, Nur, Nur’s Apartment, Plot, Said
March 1, 2009 at 12:49 pm
When Nur leaves, Said also thinks about Sana and questions whether seeing her would be possible again.