On fiction
Is fiction too, or insufficiently, self-indulgent?
Labels: thought
The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: Those with brains, but no religion, And those with religion, but no brains.
—Abu'l-`Ala' al-Ma`arri, d. 1057, poet of Ma`arra, quoted in Amin Maalouf's book The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
—Abu'l-`Ala' al-Ma`arri, d. 1057, poet of Ma`arra, quoted in Amin Maalouf's book The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Thursday, May 14, 2020
