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A couple of weeks ago, i read Goytisolo’s The Garden of Secrets. It seemed like putting a little time after its completion would help pull it into focus. Nope. It was a complete novel, and it included a few techniques that always manage to hook me. However, it felt like i was walking in on the end of a conversation.

My photo shows a halakis, or storyteller, in the Jemaa El Fna in Marrakech, Morocco. Every evening there are several halakis continuing the great oral tradition of storytelling in Marrakech's public space, and they are real performance artists who attract large local audiences of all ages.