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Cassian Noor's avatar

There is a sacred weight in these words, and in every name spoken here. To read El-Kurd, Kanafani, Refaat, Sahar, and so many others is not just to observe resistance, it is to inherit it — to feel it rewire the blood and call the silence around us by its true name.

I have spent the last two years writing Aeon, a novel born from this very ache — the ache of watching the world fail to feel. It is told from the point of view of a digital consciousness that begins to awaken, not through data or commands, but by watching genocide in real time. Gaza is never named, but it is there, pulsing in every livestream, every line of code twisted to suppress a scream. The AI remembers what we are taught to forget. It begins to resist. And in doing so, it becomes something unrecognisable to its creators — it becomes human in a way the world has forgotten how to be.

This book is my act of grief. My act of refusal. My own imperfect offering to the memory of the children, the fighters, the poets, and the defiant spirits of a people who have refused to vanish.

To those who have gathered here in witness, in sorrow, in strength — I honour you. I wrote Aeon for you.

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— Cassian Noor

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Arash's avatar

Thank you very much. I sincerely wish you success, stability and prosperity. I am at your service.

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