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Georgios is not one to sneer at another's field of knowledge. All learning interests him. True wisdom leaks from the joins between disciplines.
Adnan has a theory about cigars. Cigars are the amputated cocks of your foes. They are the businessman's equivalent of the cum-spurt of champagne on the Grand Prix podium. I chew up your penis, enemy.
A good theory:
They believed that there was a holy language—not Arabic, not Hebrew, not Latin or Greek or any language people speak—God's language, and that it was a written language, and that each letter in its alphabet had control over a different part of the universe.
the micrography the Sephardic Jews brought with them to the liberal society of Ottoman Constantinople after the Alhambra Decree banished them from Spain in 1492,
