Thursday, January 10, 2008

Memorable Orientalisms

Other: Is it just me, or does Arabic prose tend to read like a list all the time?  This happened, and then this happened, and then this...

Me: That sounds like a huge generalization--what Arabic prose have you read besides newspapers?

Other: (with a turn of the head) "Well, none, really, just the newspapers, and I'm reading a short novel..."

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