I suspected something like that was the case! It worked for me even though I had no knowledge of the story. It created a curious effect of "There's something going on here".
Because of social media, our modern lives have become like sanitized fictional stories. We rarely experience pain, suffering, disease because we’ve surrounded ourselves with the comforts of easily accessible entertainment, touch of a button medicine, fast foods, bad new age ideas and lies. Nothing is secret anymore and that has destroyed the magic and childlike wonderment of discovering something new and interesting in stories form
@AisleofMisfitBooks On a more on-topic note: I read the book in the late eighties or early nineties in a german translation. Would you recommend rereading it in english, i.e. is style one of its strength' ?
Good question! I think a good translation is probably fine. He does use archaic and Arabic words-just enough to give a sense that you’re in 15th-century Cairo-but a good translation would do the same.
Interesting! Great videography, especially the intro - suggestive, intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much! Very nice to hear. The intro was inspired by a scene early in the book.
I suspected something like that was the case! It worked for me even though I had no knowledge of the story. It created a curious effect of "There's something going on here".
Nice! That was my hope :)
Because of social media, our modern lives have become like sanitized fictional stories. We rarely experience pain, suffering, disease because we’ve surrounded ourselves with the comforts of easily accessible entertainment, touch of a button medicine, fast foods, bad new age ideas and lies. Nothing is secret anymore and that has destroyed the magic and childlike wonderment of discovering something new and interesting in stories form
I’ll have to read this! I read Robert Irwin’s non fiction biography of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun. and thought it was very interesting.
Irwin was an interesting guy! I think you’ll like it :)
Spooky! Loved the video very inversive
Glad to hear it--thanks for letting me know!
awesome. ty! pizza and prosperity to u
Yes please! Thank you :)
Sounds like Butcher's Crossing meets Arabian Nights!
I haven't read it--but it's now on my list! Thanks for the tip!
Don't we all deteriorate as the days and nights drag on?
haha, I feel ya--but I'm fighting it! ;)
@AisleofMisfitBooks On a more on-topic note: I read the book in the late eighties or early nineties in a german translation. Would you recommend rereading it in english, i.e. is style one of its strength' ?
Good question! I think a good translation is probably fine. He does use archaic and Arabic words-just enough to give a sense that you’re in 15th-century Cairo-but a good translation would do the same.