@JuanmaErrea El armador agradecerá una foto tan bonita. ¿Dónde es? (Lleva el barbiquejo sin moco, como los Form 36; pero es un 41, ¿cierto?) Qué barcos virgueros hacían en Taiwan...
@DalrympleWill Not much seems to have changed in the 25 yrs (almost to the day) since I snapped this. (Prolly my best winter ever, bumming along the Narmada all the way up to Amarkantak, in a bit of a dither over tales of dacoity—and a tatty copy of C of Djinns in my rucksack. Jai jai MP!)
@Harbpeace@Rowaida_Abdel A trilingual trifecta: alienation + dépaysement (of the sucky kind) + desarraigo
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How puzzling is that غرب root and its extended kin.
(لذلك... إذا شعرت بالغربة في غرب المغرب ، فلا تستغرب لأنه ليس من المستغرب)
@ENMachado11 @SamHarrisOrg@dr_mcgilchrist I am quite certain it's from "Human Immortality" (https://t.co/hBNLMCw0NO; 2nd par. after Shelley's quote). Dr IMcG's brilliant take on it is somewhat far from verbatim though, mind you; but the gist is def there :)
@SamHarrisOrg@FareedZakaria FZ's case—Muslims cannot stomach truth so we'd better not fling galling facts in their faces—smacks of Maajid's bigotry of low expectations.
@SamHarrisOrg@gcaw "a point many Muslims shirk—the pun on the Arabic term for polytheism should be intended there." Got to love SH's nifty, if rare, pedantries