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Names Of Things Life Language & Beg
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A striking, original memoir of the archaeology of language praised as "an etymological wonderment" (William Safire) and "simply and eloquently -- magic".
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"The quartz-flecked blue marble of the vine-crowned Coptic columns absorbed into the qiblah has been eaten by the air into waves." Paint a thousand words. Scarlet birds. Sparkling sands. Rivers of green. Gold etched in bookbinding. Orange-bellied fish. Lemon-green dawn. Yellow jacinth, the six fabric of heaven. Susan Brind Morrow takes her North American upbringing, including the loss of a close relative, and attaches herself to Egypt via her love of language. Whether it's Arabic, Latin, Greek, or western verse, her love of words comes through in every page, colouring a world that would be threatening to others. Crowded, stinking, polluted Cairo is the Eye of the Sun. The desert sleeps under peach cirrus clouds. The Milky Way is the Margar el Kabsh, 'the path of the sheep'. "Put me beneath the chariot of the too near sun in a land denied even of houses." I am now learning Arabic. Book Season = Summer (deny the desert)
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ISBN:
9781573226806
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
06/01/1998
Publisher:
RIVERHEAD BOOKS/PENGUIN PUTNAM
Pages:
240
Height:
8 in.
Width:
6.4 in.
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.62 in.
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General/trade
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1
UPC Code:
2801573226808
Author:
Susan Brind Morrow
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