Mirror of modern conscience

With what emotion, sir, when you wrote me this letter of yours that I received a few days ago, I did not know what to do with it, and I did not know what was done to me! If I had responded to the first emotions that it aroused in me, I would have torn it to pieces, or I would have burned it, or I would have thrown it in the trash, as those who are generous in talking say. But I hate to respond to emotions when they are raging, and to anger when it erupts, so I did not tear it, nor did I burn it, nor did I throw it among the trash. Rather, I left it for a day and a day, and then I returned to reading it, and it only aroused in me what it aroused during the first reading: anger, annoyance, and excitement. . Taha Hussien