One more thing



And one more thing:

Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum

You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.

(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).




Saturday, March 3, 2012

Recommended Reading


     In an article in The National, Charles Glass cautions that as a civil war develops in Syria. reporters should not take sides:
 http://charlesglass.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=349f815120864d73f22786e0f&id=132092746a&e=fa72ebd586


Charles Glass

     In The London Review of Books, Glass reviews "Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean" by Philip Mansel; and "Beirut," by Samir Kassir, translated by M.B. Debevoise:
http://charlesglass.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=349f815120864d73f22786e0f&id=37c9babdae&e=fa72ebd586
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  1. raymonda tawilMarch 9, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    the book reviews from Charles Glass are superbe,his vivid account and analysis of the two books helps us to understand the life of the people of the middle East ,and their struggle, and the historical background of the trouble that occured in the Levant ,his fascinating story told in such an easy way made us understand , the suffering endured by the people of the levant ,and the colonialist French, and British superpower,and all the troubles they have brought to our country,history is repeating itself .with different faces ,

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