Three Other Articles / A Cry from the Top of the Well

'A Cry from the Top of the Well', Jalal Al-e Ahmad's preface to the collection Three Other Articles (1342 SH / 1963). The author speaks of the scattered isolation of writers, 'islands, one by one and unconnected', in a sea of ignorance, and fears that the right to think has been taken from them. He writes that all three articles first appeared in the magazine Elm va Zendegi (now banned), and so calls this a cry from the top of the well, not from its bottom.