I‘m currently reading this book! 💕🐻
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I have long been interested in the Ottoman Empire. One of the most unique empires the world has ever seen! What's been going on in Syria, Palestine and Iraq has its roots in the Ottoman Empire and it's collapse during and after The Great War.
"Colour is the touch of the eye, music to the deaf, a word out of the darkness....
I‘m so fortunate to be red! I‘m fiery. I‘m strong. I know men take notice of me and that I cannot be resisted.
I do not conceal myself: For me, delicacy manifests itself neither in weakness nor in subtlety, but through determination and will. So, I draw attention to myself. I‘m not afraid of other colours, shadows, crowds or even of loneliness."
Purrfect reading buddy!
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behaviour - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate. People may dress differently, but they may all strive to flaunt their status via their appearance.
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What is the best translation of 1001 nights? Any opinions?
pickOne of the best books I have read. Highly recommended to those interested in Islamic spirituality!
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"I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality."
-Orhan Pamuk, The Museum Of Innocence
