Status Updates From Orientalism

"It is as if, having once settled on the Orient as a locale suitable for incarnating the infinite in a finite shape, Europe could not stop this practice; the Orient and the Oriental, Arab, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, or whatever, became repetitious pseudo-incarnations of some great original (Christ, Europe, the West) they were supposed to have been imitating" (pg 62).

Mr Said is going back on the shelf for a bit. This book is too dense for my brain rn

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