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Just finished volume 1 of Moss Roberts's translation (up to chapter 70). The story of the fall of the Han Dynasty of China c 200 AD/CE and its replacement by three kingdoms at war with each other. What a magnificent story -- with so many elements of
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“The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.”
― Sorcerer's Apprentice
― Sorcerer's Apprentice
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.”
― The Sufis
― The Sufis
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