![]() ![]() The palace, an old, low, Syrian building of whitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace and the officers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modern English officers: for example, they do not dig up the corpses of their dead enemies and mutilate them, as we dug up Cromwell and the Mahdi. Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace, and soldiers. The stars and the cloudless sky are our own contemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than we know them but you would not guess that from their appearance. A great radiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is rising in the east. Quality of Life, Freedom, More time with the ones you Love.Īn October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. ![]()
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