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What do the Rosetta Stone and the EU regulations have in common?
Chapter 33, Rosetta Stone: "...to read the whole content (on the Rosetta Stone) is about as thrilling as reading a new EU regulation written in several languages. It is bureaucratic, priestly and dry." (p. 212). It seems that bureaucracy has a long tradition...

"The great thing about looking at Gilgamesh today is that we see that, if we go back far enough, there's no clash of civilizations between the Middle East and the West. We find in Gilgamesh the origins of a common culture - its offshoots go off into Homer, the 1001 Nights, and the Bible - so it is really a sort of common thread in our global culture." (p.101)