The desert is a place of endless contemplation, and tart advice. There is life here, and, though different, nevertheless has lessons to teach such that might even bring a smile to a saint’s face. How do we describe a culture of sand, when we speak the language of water? The emptier the place you serve, the more abundant will be your belongings. We are leaving you, but our departure is such that our robe is sweeping all the dust on the floor as we depart. I can’t make you us, but wherever we go, let the words be etched into stones, that, much like a time capsule, one day the seeds of civilization will nourish themselves with such symbols. May the sand dunes of my country be reflected in my eyes whenever you look at me, its endless skies embellish the air around me. We don’t bow towards you, we prostrate ourselves. For inevitably, the line beyond the Kaaba to which we lower ourselves is almost always the new world. My tongue is tempted to say the word that would render me a foreigner, but the visage of my face should be enough to do that for me. We can only invite you to Majesty; it’s up to you to take up that challenge.
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One wonders how the journeys of the anglosaxons to the shores of England must have been like. It is doubtful to have been easy, and despite the lacuna in our knowledge on the matter, maybe studying the reasons behind it more would be useful. It is impossible to build the future without utilizing the past. Truly, it is impossible, for every invention, for it to be useful, needs to find a contemporarily unused word that had its time in the past. There is a datalistic reason for that, for nobody will take you seriously if you come up with a word that neither a god nor an ant can relate to, let alone a person. One wonders whether reading hieroglyphs is a sin or not. Given the Islamic and iconoclastic reservation about looking at images, it should be like procreation for humanity, done only if it prevents annihilation, but avoided otherwise. But not all hieroglyphs are sinful, and some are more honorable than others. To balance the past with the future, let us come up with this compro...
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