Trafika Europe 6 - Arabesque

the scarecrow

“Happiness?” “This fairy tale definitely does not exist beside a man.” “I doubt that this fairy tale exists anywhere.” “Woman is the only creature whoknowswhere this treasure is found.” “You ’re talking about happiness? Who can say decisively where happiness hides?” “Man’s happiness is with a woman, but a woman’s exists

realmof the desert. Successive generations have reported that many other advocates preceded the advocate of revenge to the desert. The advocate of revenge was the last partisan to enter the barren land but surpassed all others in sovereignty and sorcery. He is said to have found his predecessors embracing one another and pretending to be fond of each other by day but competing to plot conspiracies against each other once night fell. Thus the desert’s very pillars rocked with their ignominy. Then the desert’s inhabitants were in an uproar because of this chaos. The cunning strategist climbed a mountain and from it spied on his rivals in sorcery. The advocate of anger darted at his companions’ faces like a raging

elsewhere.” “Amazing!”

“Man’s happiness is with a woman, but a woman’s exists elsewhere.”

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Revenge.... Revenge is a way of life in the

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