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There Hayidar's BMW waited, a tiger tail of exhaust flickering behind it. Hayidar's driver, Maruf, remembered me on sight and struggled out of the car in the manner of a gut-shot grizzly. His apparent reason for doing so was the ceremonial rupture of my rib cage.
— Mar 30, 2025 09:41PM
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Uzbekistan was no green Persia with a history of scholarly warrior-kings, not some Mediterranean paradise where the roses of Hellenism bloomed. This was desert followed by desert alongside desert surrounded by desert. By horse or on foot, one would have had to travel quite a while in ancient times to see anything but bleakness....
— Mar 31, 2025 09:14PM
Jim
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—I was under the impression that you were served vodka on these [Air Uzbekistan] local flights.
—Vodka? Nah. Who told you that?
—I don't remember. I heard it somewhere, from someone.
—The only people who would get vodka would be the pilots.
—That's comforting.
—Just enough to relax them, bro.
—I'd hate for them to be nervous.
— Nov 05, 2021 08:41PM
—Vodka? Nah. Who told you that?
—I don't remember. I heard it somewhere, from someone.
—The only people who would get vodka would be the pilots.
—That's comforting.
—Just enough to relax them, bro.
—I'd hate for them to be nervous.
Jim
is on page 124 of 416
When God loved us, he gave us the Amur Darya [River[. When he ceased to love us, he sent us Russian engineers.
— Nov 04, 2021 08:52PM
