Eternal India

PAYAM'S PENITENTIAL(توبه نامه پيام)

2008-04-27T17:46:00.000-07:00

دستان من از همه دستها بالاتر است!! زيرا من خدايم..‏

آغاز سخن اين بار برايم چنان دشوار است كه گويي بسان نويسنده و مترجمي كه ‏مشاعرش زوال يافته باشد و خويشتن را در جستجوي عقل نو بيابد، قرار گرفته ام!!‏

جاي هيچ ترديد نيست كه روزي طالع و سعد من به مرحله ابراز اعترافات اشتباهاتي ‏مي رسيد كه كالبد وجوديم را تا حد پايان هستي غرق در لجن نموده است. باشد تا ‏ناگفته هاي حاضر مرهمي بر قفس آهني سينه ام و ذهن يبوست زده ام و قلم ‏ريقيده ام گردد!!‏

ندامتنامه من سرآغازش را با اين كلام خواهد آراست:‏

حقير پيام يزدانجو بر خلاف فرافكني هاي جاه طلبانه هرگز بر باور داشتن استقلال ‏عقلي و كاري و جسمي نبوده ام و همواره خود را پست تر از آن چه كه ديگران از من ‏در ذهن خويش ساخته اند، مي دانستم و مي دانم.‏‏

نسبت به اراجيف برگردان شده اي كه در چند جلد كتاب دور از وطني آنهم با اغفال ‏صاحبان بنگاه عرصه چاپ و نشر با ترفندي مكارانه و شعبده اي به زينت طبع و توزيع ‏آراسته ام، عميقآً ابراز شرمساري و گناه و آمرزش مي كنم. ‏

از همه مخاطبيني كه چنين چرندياتي را كه ناشي از هذيان ترجمه اي من و ديگر ‏همكاران پشت پرده اي و نامرئي ام به سبب استعمال و اماله چندين گرم و نخود و ‏ليتر، ترياكو بنگو چرس اعلاء افغاني و عرق سگي وطني آميخته با قرص ديازپام بوده ‏است و توانسته نشئگي وصف ناپذيري را متعاقب مصرف، در آن لحظات بر ما مستولي ‏نمايد تا در قالب سطور و صفحه دست به خلق آن قصارات مزخرف و بي پدر و مادر دار ‏بزنيم و عوام را در مورد ابتياع و خوانش آنها مورد اغواء بني اسرائيلي قرار دهيم، از ‏شرم و خواري ابتدا اعلام استفراغ ادبي و در پس آن دست بر گريبان قربانيان به ‏صراحت فرياد استغفار زميني سر مي دهيم.‏

شايد اگر پزشك مي بودم به عنوان جبران اين خسارات، دست به جراحي نورون هاي ‏آسيب ديده اين دسته از مخاطبان مي زدم.. افسوس آنكه هرگز مقدور نخواهد بود. ‏چرا كه حقير از بيطاري سالها فاصله دارم، چه رسد به طبابت!!‏

در طول اين حضور نكبت بار و خودپسندانه و مستبدانه و بلندپروازانه، اعلام مي دارم ‏كه تلاش من در خنثي ساختن بخش حيواني و غريزه شهوت محورم ره به جايي نبرده ‏و هر روز عطشناك تر از روز گذشته در تفكرات و توطئه گايشي اطرافيان مونثه سلوك ‏شبه عرفاني و دراويشي از نوع حاد و مسري هندي مي كنم.‏

لذا در اين مجال از نامبردگان زير با ذكر تخفيف در نام و لقب خانوادگي يادي تذلذي ‏مي كنم.

حضرات سر كار خانم (الف.ر)، (خ.الف)، (ش.م)، (ف.ج)، (گ.خ)، (ع.ن)، ‏‏(ف.ن)، (ر.گ)، (ش.الف).‏

شايد در اين بين اسامي متعددي از قلم فرو افتاده باشد كه اين قصور را آن افراد بر ‏من ببخشايند..‏و صد البته قابل عنوان است كه پاره اي از نامبردگان در جرگه اشخاصي كه توفيق ‏ارتباط عالي منشانه سكسيه با آنان ميسور گرديد، جايگاه منحصربفردانه اي را به خود ‏اختصاص داده اند و همواره بر كاهدان ذهنم ستاره وار مي درخشند!!!‏

در اين مدت كه افسارم بر دست ديگران بود و مدتي مرا بر كرسي تدريس و مسند ‏كلاس جلوساندند، اعلام رضايت مي كنم. چرا كه خاطرات خوش زير نافي ام از حيث ‏تصميم فخيمه آنان در محيط هاي دانشگاهي عينيت يافت!!‏

لذا از منظر ديگر مي بايست اعلام ندامت مضاعف كنم كه با كج فهمي فلسفي و ‏ادبي و نظري در انديشه افرادي چون هدايت، كانت، هگل ،فرويد، بارت و ديگر ‏والامقامان شهيد شده بدست من، بسان يك استاد بناي ناشي، كثافاتي از ملات و ‏فضولات انساني بر سنگ گورشان كاهگل نمودم كه هيچ تمهيدي در ترميم و زدودن ‏آن نمي توان يافت!‏

حس متعالي روزافزون من در اين زندگي تكراري تا بدانجا پيش رفته بود كه پاره اي ‏اوقات بر اين تصور باطل بودم كه با آويزان ساختن خويش بر آلت تناسلي اشخاص ريز و ‏درشت اين مملكت كه خود را تافته جدابافته از ديگران مي دانند و مهر انتلكت و ‏سردمدار روشنفكري را بر پيشاني خود زنده اند، مي توانم سري در ميان صاحب ‏كلاهان بجويم.. غافل آنكه همان آلت شان در دستمان به فراخي جاي مي گرفت و ‏اساساً مأمني محكم به عنوان دستگيره و قلاب پرتاب و پيشرفت محسوب نمي شد!!‏

در امروز هستي، كاش شاملو زنده بود و فحش نامه اي نيز بر ديوان نداشته و ‏نانوشته من بسان آنچه بر شعر حافظ نگاشت، مي نوشت.. بلكه از اين ره كمي از ‏عذاب و رنج ساديسمي ام مي كاست..‏

هر چند به گفته سهراب شهيد ثالث جريان روشنگري و روشنفكري در ايران چاره اي ‏جز گه خوردن ندارد. حال آنكه هر كدامشان از رنگي خاص مصرف مي فرمايند.. و موكد ‏در اين ملاحظه كه من در جاه طلبي روشنفكرانه از سايرين در مصرف و خورش اقسام ‏كثافات رنگي پيشي گرفته ام. چرا كه آنان چند رنگ بيش در دست ندارند و نداشتند، ‏لذا در دستان من جدولي از رنگ ها يافتني و موجود است!!!‏در پايان ضمن ستايش از نيوشيدن اين توبه نامه، قبل از آنكه در دوران كهنسالي ‏زندگي ام ريق رحمت را سر بكشم، بسيار مشعوفم كه از طريق جادوي هزاره سوم و ‏نگارش در بستر مجازي توانستم كه بي واسطه از وبلاگ رسمي ام اين اعتراف و ‏ندامت نامه را در پهنه اينترنت منعكس نمايم..‏

دستان من از همه دستها پايين تر است!! زيرا من مغلوب خدايم..‏

پيام(جمال الدين) يزدانجو‏

5 ارديبهشت 1387 شمسي‏‏

24 آوريل 2008 ميلادي‏

‏17 ربيع الثاني 1429 قمري‏

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An Indian Narravtive

2007-01-01T13:41:00.000-08:00

In our trip to Rajasthan, we did see `Tiger of Bengal', the wise who learned us the wisdom: `the man who has spent a week in India, can say many things about it; the man who has spent two weeks, can say too many things; but the man who has spent three weeks, can hardly say anything.'

So, after near two years in India, Mehdi, my fellow traveller, has a hardly-spoken narrative of our eternal trip. Here is his narrative:

Hindustan

2007-01-01T13:40:00.000-08:00

Our journey in the eternity, Hindustan I mean as we used to call it like that in our trip-talks, didn’t only happen in buses in between cities and at ancient monuments of gods, it happened in other stories too, even in some other languages; it even happened in our nocturnal dreams, still tripping in another cities; it happened in frames too and it started by this one: Payam, at my place, after a long trip-talk ...

Another eternal journey started for me, as soon as he stepped in Hindustan.

Delhi

2007-01-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

The first city, we walked all the streets till we reached the end which had the gate we had already interred to that city; it was the city of analogue repetitions, they call it Delhi, a circle of rectangles. In every time you are where that you were there.
The first wisdom: In Hindi, the word for tomorrow is the same for yesterday. If you could live the past, you will live the future forever.

Jaipur

2007-01-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

Pink City: the gaze of reality started. The king made the city out of the lines he could remember from his dreams of a lady wearing a pink Sari.

Wind Palace

2007-01-01T12:37:00.000-08:00

The story goes on like this:
Every time when the king wanted to roll open the sari around her, he would wake up from that dream; so he called for his wise, and the wise said that she can not be seen naked, her innocence makes her vanish. Make a palace full of small windows, so you would see her from each, but not to be seen through it. So the palace was made window by window, and each one for a dream. Till the one thousand, one was dreamt and the palace completed.

Hava Mahal

2007-01-01T12:36:00.000-08:00

The King asked the wind to make the palace, not only because wind could be faster in making a window each day for a dream, but also it was wind who knew well the moves of lines in her sari.

Monkey Temple

2007-01-01T12:35:00.000-08:00

On the way to the Sun Temple, but at dusk: many small things stopped us on the way, climbing up to the temple.
Payam came up later mentioning this: here, everything is so transparent that even death can be invisible.

Sun Temple

2007-01-01T12:34:00.000-08:00

At the Sun Temple, we lost to see the sunset there, a monkey did either.

Pushkar

2007-01-01T12:33:00.000-08:00

Waking up in another city, we called it the city that wasn’t here. We used to be silent and see the things which were there, but not here.

Bazar

2007-01-01T12:32:00.000-08:00

Payam did shopping with the closed eyes.

Thinking

2007-01-01T12:31:00.001-08:00

We thought with closed eyes.

the Ordinary

2007-01-01T12:30:00.001-08:00

I took this picture with closed eyes.

Dawn

2007-01-01T12:29:00.001-08:00

Next morning we ran away, we couldn’t bear not seeing anymore. We opened our eyes and we were somewhere else; the city of all the cities. There was a palace for everything. A palace for poor, a palace of rooms for every kind, a palace for loneliness…

Udaipur

2007-01-01T12:28:00.001-08:00

There was a palace that outside and inside was both part of the palace.

Citizens

2007-01-01T12:27:00.000-08:00

Everybody was a citizen. The city was ours, and kings were walking in our shadows.

City Palace

2007-01-01T12:26:00.000-08:00

The palace of love, we had to pass the lake to reach it, and then lost in its corridors. In the map of the palace this was written: `The only way to love someone is the effort to know her, but with no hope.'

Monsoon Palace

2007-01-01T12:25:00.000-08:00

A palace for solitude: the King built it high a way from the city, so he can bear the Loneliness instead of his own people.

Solitude

2007-01-01T12:24:00.000-08:00

Payam broke the silence of the place: you can be so damn lonely here that no one would hear you die.

They never found the body of the king.

Sky

2007-01-01T12:23:00.000-08:00

We couldn’t stand it and could get out of it neither. Its gravity wasn’t from the center of the earth; we were appealed toward the sky.

Consciousness

2007-01-01T12:22:00.000-08:00

Payam fainted, but full of consciousness about silence and sun.

Babel

2007-01-01T12:21:00.000-08:00

I said from inside: it’s like a grave, but vertical toward gods’… maybe the last floor of the Tower of Babel could be like this, if it was built to the end… God was lonely, so he then created the differences in language.

Unconsciousness

2007-01-01T12:20:00.000-08:00

I fainted too. The only thing I can remember is the click sound of this pic, and three men behind me.

Lake

2007-01-01T12:19:00.000-08:00

We took the last picture before leaving for the Lake Palace.

Fluidity

2007-01-01T12:18:00.000-08:00

Coming back, we felt like falling down. We sat closed to each other to fall down in a same spot, as though on a boat.

Lake Palace

2007-01-01T12:17:00.000-08:00

They didn’t let us even near the Palace; it was for rich people, and we two were there on a boat with feet paddles… those who had motor paddles could go to the palace.

Landscape

2007-01-01T12:16:00.000-08:00

There, from the Lake, we saw the Monsoon Palace (the lonely palace, on the top of the hill)… it looked far away and it happened in a moment.

Sunset

2007-01-01T12:15:00.000-08:00

And then the sunset; at last we saw it, a sunset in an interim eternity.

Silhouette

2007-01-01T12:14:00.000-08:00

We even wept with silhouette tears … we were happy to be in these simple stories we couldn’t even imagine before. We always dreamt to heat the road and ran away from the world, and now we are somewhere greater than what we could know.
Another wisdom: Eternity is where your imagination cannot go, unless you step in it for the real.

City World

2007-01-01T12:13:00.000-08:00

Next morning we left again.
We were leaving so much of ourselves behind in each city, that we feared we would be finished before the last. We used to make fun of it: although eternal citizens, but still worldly human we are.

Earth

2007-01-01T12:12:00.000-08:00

He sometimes used to call back the world; calling his mother, and his beloveds. No one knew when he is going to come back again, even me ...

Always Travelling

2007-01-01T12:11:00.000-08:00

This man, on a local bus asked who we are; we said travelers. Although he had never went out of his city, but gave us a wisdom on traveling: `Wisdom is in details; I travel in between rooms and doors. I’m always traveling.'
So after many cities behind us, we started to take the Roads between the Rooms…

Turban Room

2007-01-01T12:10:00.000-08:00

We went to a room with the biggest turban in the world.

the Dead

2007-01-01T12:09:00.000-08:00

A room for the dead guests in the city palace.

the Future

2007-01-01T12:08:00.000-08:00

We saw a room where someone had mad a working image of the future and calling it the 6th world… he had imagine it with space ships working with air balls attached below them.

Smoke

2007-01-01T12:07:00.000-08:00

We went to a room for smoking a cigar.

Mirror

2007-01-01T12:06:00.000-08:00

I went to a room with only a mirror and saw myself.

Butchery

2007-01-01T12:05:00.000-08:00

Payam walked into the butcher room and took this picture.

Bus Room

2007-01-01T12:04:00.000-08:00

We traveled in a small room in a bus, from Udaipur to Bombay.

Return Room

2007-01-01T12:03:00.000-08:00

I remembered Payam back in my room the first night he came.

the End

2007-01-01T12:02:00.000-08:00

This is the last picture I took from Payam, again where we started, so that’s why it doesn’t feel like something that happened in the past and finished. It's still going on, and this time were like this choosing near 40 of the pictures and writing for each of them. Our journey happened in many more pictures, more wisdoms and wonders.
Eternity has a hell of different views. Once a Spanish painter said, Hindustan is like a very realistic cubism ...

Writing

2007-01-01T12:01:00.000-08:00

But there is one image that always remain in every narration of my journey with Payam; the image seeing him writing. Nobody ever saw him writing, I mean besides the translating. I even worked with him in one or two of his translation, but I never saw him writing his fictions. Although he used to talk about his stories, but always he had to be alone to write. I never even saw him taking notes, or carrying a notebook; he has a monstrous memory.

Memory

2007-01-01T12:00:00.000-08:00

But now, in India he used to bring out his notebook and write, in front of peoples, in streets, in busses… I took a series of pictures of him writing; these are my favorites. Knowing him for years, and now its something new I see in him.
The last wisdom I remember:
In eternity you don’t see anyone writing anything, because we are in the stories, in the happening. So those who still keep on writing, are the ones who have really understood the vanity of writing.