The Proof of the Honey by Salwa Al Neimi

Author:Salwa Al Neimi
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

In one of the old stories that my mother always used to tell us, she spotted my father in the street, walking with a strange woman. He didn’t see her. He was too absorbed by the other woman. My mother quickly crossed the street to avoid running into them.

The details of the story might change, but her voice as she told it was always the same: full of pride. I was young and would listen to her and picture the scene as though I were watching it on a screen. My father laughing, his arm around the waist of a beautiful woman wearing a pillbox hat. She leans her head on his shoulder with a coquettish smile. A whore? In the eyes of my mother she couldn’t have been anything else. I imagined my mother, who was also beautiful, quickly weaving her way through the cars to the other side. Her head down, not wanting my father to discover her there.

A melodramatic moment open to multiple interpretations, you might say.

There was a time in which I would attempt to decipher its various meanings. Now I no longer want to understand. I content myself with reviewing the images in my head and going over them again and again, like a cinema-lover watching a cult film.

A simple case of adultery? As though adultery were something simple. As though one could commit adultery just like that. As though it were nothing. Such misguided thoughts reveal an ignorance of adultery’s precise rules and regulations, rules that cannot be bent. It has ever been so.

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