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In a world where parties are joined at the click of a mouse, it is a difficult scene to imagine. And, too, he found time to found an unconventional family and father a daughter, whilst engaging in numerous sporting activities and attending to the demands of a very well-developed sexual appetite hetero- as well as homosexual.
Visible on his table are numerous newspaper articles discussing Franco-Moroccan politics and the judicial organisation amongst the Berbers β¦ Inquiry is represented as a form of mystical belief. He is obliged to lead a modest life, in accordance with the meagre income he receives from his work as a manual labourer and a journalist. Still, he visits his parents regularly β¦ they deplore the political views of their son.
Nor did he fail to experience more than his fair share of the exhilaration and pain of love affairs, alongside more casual encounters. I say so not to glorify myself, but because it is the strict truth. Moreover, this concentration on that which for me is most essential has certainly not prevented me from drinking voraciously from other sources, from intoxicating myself with music, poetry, plastic arts, landscapes and journeys, nurturing diversions which relax the spirit to make it more able later, better disposed to pursue the cause of militant struggle.
