The Academic Writer's Toolkit by Berger Arthur Asa;

Author:Berger, Arthur Asa; [Berger, Arthur Asa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The Art of the Academic Letter

DOI: 10.4324/9781315419336-8

My Illustrious Friend and Joy of My Liver!

The thing you ask of me is both difficult and useless. Although I have passed all my days in this place, I have neither counted the houses nor have I inquired into the number of the inhabitants; and as to what one person loads on his mules and the other stows away in the bottom of his ship, that is no business of mine. But, above all, as to the previous history of this city, God only knows the amount of dirt and confusions that the infidels may have eaten before the coming of the sword of Islam. It were unprofitable for us to inquire into it. O my soul! O my lamb! Seek not the things which concern thee not. Thou camest to us and we welcomed thee: go in peace.

—Reply of a Turkish official to an Englishman‧s questions. Quoted in Austen H. J. Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, 663

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