Ways and methods

"My doctrine in life is that I have no doctrine; all my actions are just a mess within a mess; what I want, I do not do, and what I do not want, I do. I think of myself as a ball in the hands of a powerful player who throws it into space, neither of them knowing where it is headed or where it will end up! In my view, life is a game played by an eternal, everlasting force that produces incomprehensible patterns, and within its depths lie endless wonders and curiosities. Whenever they mate, they produce dwarves and giants, and whenever the eternal being is agitated, his infinite powers explode, and something emerges that bewilders all that exists." This is life from the point of view of the Lebanese writer Maroun Abboud, as he describes it in this book, which includes a collection of articles in which he discusses some social and political issues, using his sarcastic, critical style, which characterizes his works.