September 10, 2004
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For Samira Bellil,
who died in Paris on
Friday, Sept. 3, 2004…
From the link at
Symmetry and Change
in the Dreamtime,
Part 8, Friday,
Sept. 3, 2004,
Noon…
Three songs from Sept. 10
in various preceding years–
“Good morning little schoolgirl
Good morning little schoolgirl
Can I come home with
Can I come home with you“
– Rod Stewart, Sept. 10, 1964
“Tell your mamma, girl, I can’t stay long
We got things we gotta catch up on
Mmmm, you know
You know what I’m sayin’ “
– Neil Diamond, Sept. 10, 1966
“A time of war, a time of peace
A time of love, a time of hate
A time you may embrace
A time to refrain from embracing“
– The Byrds, Sept. 10, 1965
Further verses from the Byrds
seem appropriate on this, the day
of Samira Bellil’s funeral:
To everything, turn, turn, turn,
there is a season, turn, turn, turn…
“It’s not even called rape. They call it
a tournante, or pass-round.
The banality is deliberate:
a joint, a girl – same difference.”
… and a time to every purpose
under heaven.
“… The kind of school where teacher
Fabrice Genestal kept hearing
the word “tournante” and didn’t click
what it meant, till he and Sillam
sat the kids down in after-school
workshops, and got talking.”
