seventy-five piasters.. and the sum appalled me, spent on such trifles... I breathed a sigh of relief when I glimpsed, in a far corner of the bookcase, Arabic books bearing the names: Kan Ma Kan, Ghosts of the Village, Majnun Layla, and others, and then issues of the magazines al-Sindbad and al-Shabab — this last published by the American University of Beirut. And when I asked his opinion of all the books and magazines the bookcase held, he answered: "I prefer reading these American magazines, and then those detective novels. As for these Arabic stories — they're all just so much talk. And as for al-Sindbad magazine, I used to collect it when I was younger, but now I've stopped.."

I was startled by the surprise.. My eye slid to a corner among the books, and I glimpsed a book entitled Modern Training. I leafed through it and found it packed with advice on performing athletic exercises; and I had always noticed that my brother practiced those exercises, following the book's advice. When I asked him why he shouldered the burdens of that task, he laughed heartily at the naïveté of the question and answered me: "Don't you realize that exercises improve the body?" I said, "And if they improve it, what good does that do you?" He returned to his indulgent laugh, saying: "Don't you know that I want to become as trim as Lex Barker?" And when I asked him to explain the name, he took pity on my naïveté and ignorance as he replied that this is a well-known movie actor... Then he added: "Besides, girls look with admiration on trim, broad, strong physiques..." And here too my hopes were disappointed...

My brother does not realize that the homeland needs sound, strong bodies to defend its precincts when the alarm bell rings for help... He does not realize that the sound mind is in the sound body, and that the homeland is in urgent need

of sound minds to guard it from stumbling and rescue it from the abyss into whose depths it is about to plunge... My brother, in keeping his body trim, wants to imitate the heroes of the screen and please the pretty girls..

And he is not to blame for it... So his own limited experience has taught him... The school has not tried to check his straying or straighten his crookedness, nor has the home tried... So is my brother to blame???...

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