Belden Lane tells the story of the French bringing a handful of desert Bedouin leaders to Paris to see the glory of their culture. They saw the Eiffel Tower and other architectural delights with polite boredom. But when taken to see a waterfall in the countryside, they stood in utter amazement. They waited for the surging flow to stop. “They refused to leave, adamantly declaring to their French guide that honor required waiting . . . waiting for the end. Knowing the water could not last much longer, they awaited the moment ‘when God would grow weary of his madness,’ when this wild extravagance
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