proverb
June 12, 2008
- Never use the modifier "That's the least you could do." You will inevitably be proven to have overestimated the other person.Never put the bread crumbs canister next to the Crystal Light Peach Tea Canister. The two look surprisingly similar and if you mess that up even one time, you won't be allowed to make the dinner drinks ever again.Never entrust a secret to a person under the age of ...
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January 16, 2008
- "A book is like a garden you carry in your pocket."--Arabic proverb cited by co-editor Achmed Khammas in his introduction to "Flowers Under the Sand" (our anthology-in-progress). There is a fantastic flourishing of this genre which Arabs invented back in the 2nd century. We're giving it the first-class treatment with first-class translators of Arabic literature. On board as ...
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