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Farid Younes makes his home in Byblos, a coastal town in northern
Lebanon. He lived through both the Lebanese and now the Syrian
civil wars. Like all Lebanese, he has plenty of "serious" in his
life. The need for him and other Lebanese is to find the distance
needed to cope and if possible to move events and circumstances in
a better direction. His answer was to create a book that is a
literary imitation of a coffee house with an open mic like the
famous "Haven-The Cabin" that rests on a Byblos hilltop looking out
over the Mediterranean. The author's neighbors meditate over their
chess boards or gather in a back corner spinning epic tales of
conspiracy as a way of passing time before the next spoken word
performance . . . and as a way of making sense of the carnage of
war and strife beyond Lebanese borders and the women and
children-Syrian refugees-who line the streets in the major cities.
Nietzsche Awakens! is a game, yet it ultimately reaches past clever
word play and the razor sharp slicing of meaning to depths that
Nietzsche experienced in his own life, depths akin to those that
Farid Younes has seen face-to-face among his fellow citizens. At a
certain point, the parlor game of this book becomes a controlled
yet also a thrashing, desperate effort to survive-for one's mind to
survive against the ravages of age, and also for the culture as a
whole to survive the inanity of rigid thinking, blatant
self-dealing, and the other idiocies that prevent us from
addressing the primary challenges of our time.
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