Ah, said Hassan, I don\'t believe in the world.
He continues to paint while living in the Souani area of Tangier..
After moving back to Tangier after living in New York for four years, Mrabet resumed his role as a fisherman and began painting.
Since meeting in the early 1960\'s, Paul Bowles has taped and translated numerous strange legends and lively stories recounted by Mrabet: Love with a Few Hairs (novel), The Lemon (novel), The Boy Who Set Fire (stories), Harmless Poisons, Blameless Sins (stories), The Beach Café & Look & Move On (autobiography) and The Big Mirror (novella).
Mohammed Mrabet was born in Tangier in 1936.
The tales here deal with some of the possible results, desirable and questionable, of being in that state.
The word m\'hashish (equivalent in Moghrebi of behashished or full of hashish) is used not only in a literal sense, but also figuratively, to describe a person whose behavior seems irrational or unexpected.
These are stories of that world.
There\'s another world where life is different.
Ah, said Hassan, I don\'t believe in the world
