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There was something heroic about Tully in his thirst for life. He bridged the old with the new and was on a mission to be morally alert.
Andrew O'Hagan • Mayflies: A MAJOR BBC DRAMA FOR CHRISTMAS 2022
“In his writing he was always at his funniest, his smartest, his most thoughtful, and his most courageous and adventurous…. Prose so good it would make you laugh until you cried. I recognize now that his books are not the shade of him. They’re the quintessence of his soul, the distillation of a great adventurer and a good man. He’s still with us th
... See moreGeraldine Brooks • Memorial Days
Ben informed me that those lines were written by the thirteenth-century Persian poet Sa’adi, one of the most beloved figures in Iranian culture.
Barack Obama • A Promised Land
Aurangzeb dismissed Shivaji as a ‘mountain rat’. But by the time of his death in 1680, Shivaji had turned himself into Aurangzeb’s nemesis, leaving behind him a name as the great symbol of Hindu resistance and revival after 500 years of Islamic rule. Within a generation, Maratha writers had turned him into a demi-god. In the Sivabharata of Kaviraja
... See moreWilliam Dalrymple • The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
The breakdown in the old agreements about reality is now the most significant reality, and the world can perhaps best be explained in terms of conflicting and often incompatible narratives.
Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel.