وقلنا أيضًا إنه ربما كان يقصد بهذه البصمة ألَّا يفضَّ الخطاب سواها، أو لعلَّه شعر بدُنُوِّ الأجَل وحرص على أن يرسل لها شيئًا من ذاته ومن الأرض التي مات فيها.. لعلَّهُ.. ربَّما.. كأنَّما..
We said too that perhaps by this thumbprint he meant that no one but she should open the letter, or perhaps he felt the end drawing near and wanted to send her something of himself and of the earth he died in. Perhaps. Maybe. As if.
From the novel Port Said 68 · Chapter 29
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.