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Attar of Roses
These perfumes: musk, clove… all from the hyacinthine shadows of those tresses. You think you hear a nightingale’s song… No. It is the voice of the Rose. – Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213 – 1289), Divine Flashes A classic theme within the Persian artistic tradition is that of the rose and the nightingale: the rose representing the…
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Roses of the Orient
The Persian poet Sheikh Saadi Shirazi in 1258 wrote The Gulistân, or Rose-Garden, whose leaves, as he said, “cannot be touched by the tyranny of autumnal blasts, and the delights of whose spring the vicissitudes of time will be unable to change into the inconstancy of autumn.” Saadi told how, after spending the night in…
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A Banana Forest
The scientific name for the banana is Musa Sapentium, or the “wise fruit,” which was given by the Swedish scientist Carolus Linnaeus in 1750. The word “musa” derives from “mauz”, the Arabic word for fruit, and “sapentium” is Latin derived to mean wise. The green banana, or plantain, was then called Musa Paradisiaca, “the fruit…
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The Song Bird
Each day as it dawns,Mother, I should walk in your footsteps.Swinging off branches, playing in valleys,I should be coddled in mother’s lap everyday.The nightingale that sings from behind the treeShould be with me as it reciprocates with a “koo” whenever I call her.– Komma Uyala It is remarkable that the birds which sing are rarely…
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The Great Wave
The Great Wave off Kanagawa is Katsushika Hokusai’s first and most celebrated work in his collection of Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. It is of the Ukiyo-e genre, meaning “pictures of the floating world”, which flourished in 17th-to-19th-century Japan. The woodblock print depicts three elements: three boats weathering the stormy sea, the great wave, and…
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