Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2010
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«Islam has shrouded me with a magic that I will never be freed from», Julien Viaud alias Pierre Loti wrote in his 1892 novel «Fantômes de l`Orient» («Phantoms of the Orient»), thereby describing his lifelong fascination with the Orient as he saw it: as inscrutable, sensual, and unchanging.