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Orientalism
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For there is no doubt that imaginative geography and history hello the mind to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatising the distance and difference between what is close to it and what is far away.
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According to the orator Dio Chrysostom, India had rivers of flowing milk and olive oil, its people lived to be over four hundred years old but stayed young and beautiful and had no disease.
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― Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East
― Homer's Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East
