She of Chiaravalle introduced “cosmic education” to describe an approach for children that emphasized the interdependence of all the elements of the natural world; she encouraged children’s spontaneous activity with plants and animals in their natural environments – preferably in the open air; e dio non era assente.

But meanwhile in the 30 – plus one, mark you! – degrees of the Baltic version, structures and policy prevented the migration from the upper, too-sunlit rooms to the cooling shade of the chestnut trees in the yard below; schulfrei was the cry.

The neo extremism of surburbia taking out mini grassshoots from between the flagstones of the public pavement with a flamethrower eradicator from the baumarkt before the chintzed privacy of his windows may yet lead to trouble.

The baraka of the negligible is the increase of the mumin and far from insignificant.

The penal code is truly democrat within its books for all fall within its purview whether your pass-partout is of the land or of elsewhere.

One can only supplicate that he may make a change of tender as a seal to the change from a museum to the mosque of Inviolable Wisdom; however the smoke screen of outrage may prevent this more social, more beneficial move.

Through the wondrous eyes of the child he saw the sea’s horizon as the crest of a gigantic waterfall.

To the Gulf, a naseeha: less sugar, less words, more action, for the language of theology might well be misunderstood – for how many might fathom, ‘He is at pains to defend the justice of Allah by qualifying the absolute judgement of Allah [championed by the extremist position] by first declaring that the imposition of duties on the slaves of Allah is never heavier than they can bear and secondly that the capability for anything does not precede or accompany actions as such – for the capacity of any person is not an essential part of his being: he may or may not have it at any given moment, just as he may or not possess knowledge. Thus a person may only be held to account as long as the duty incumbent on him does not surpass his strength to bear it; moreover given that any given human capacity is not an essential part of the slave’s being, but rather subject to alteration and flux, Allah in his justice would not judge him in an absolute manner’;

and how many might overlook even la ilaaha illallah of the language of ‘aqida through over-familiarity;

so only the language of love might ensnare them, the pansies and pensées des Fleurs du Mal.

‘Beware of envy’ said the Father of the Cat, ‘for it devours good actions just as fire devours wood or grass’.

There is a tendency to still be polite when talking to robots and any habit of omitting the please and thank-you’s is also prejudicial to human speech.

‘And where are the free now?’ said Little Eva; did we ride in vain?

‘Washed up on the shore beneath the gourd, safe and sound, with the flotsam and jetsam of turbulent years behind them’.

‘In acknowledgment of the established tradition of Quraysh, their tradition of the winter and summer caravans: so let them worship the Lord of this House who has preserved them from hunger and secured them from fear’ and in recognition of the leaf they moved to Havana to call the volk to the Creator of that which had once joined those extirpated tribes in peace.

He had wanted plastic art, then that of music, then was hauled to words:

O landscape of the night! you set a form of order to the darkness by the watches of isha, the sunna, tahajjud, fajr and subh;

so he took his tent with him wherever he went and joined the Bedouin.

His doing-without only brought increase; he remembered the paucity and anxiousness of the times of covetousness. “The good is in a little which lasts, continues and goes on” – and shall be found where greedy eyes have deemed it too small.

The beach was chock-a-block and very hot so she removed her veil to better camouflage her swim.

His opposite Names of non-opposition and the words of ad-dadd, الاضاد changing from half full to half empty perhaps, like the marhaban of welcome and its opposite of unwelcomeness.

‘My disconfort from torridness is the confort of the mangos while my shiver at the cold is the delight of the snow’ he added.

Questi mostri, col sorgere del sole, si erano rintanati in zone non cosciente; Donnafugata era vicina ormai con il suo palazzo, con le sue acque zampillanti, con i ricordi dei suoi antenati santi, con l’impressione che essa dava di perennità del’infanza.

William Butler Yeats spoke of Wagner’s words over music – and remember they chose Tolkien over Wagner, Abu Hamam sped in surf over waves over water, and yet a third admired the majestic and the magnificent lions of elegies 4 and 6 in Sils Maria, all rendering intelligible the oft khaotic spontaneity of pulsating events in their story telling, not far from those historians revealing the ever recurring sameness of things through time.

And so he thanked the author, poet, story teller and historian for entertaining and imposing an order which allowed a letting go to enable the swimming of the relaxed and smiling folk around the island of pain and passion.

Yeats ha parlato delle parole di Wagner sulla musica - e ricorda che hanno scelto Tolkien invece di Wagner, Abu Hamam sfrecciava nel surf sulle onde sopra l'acqua, eppure un terzo ha ammirato i maestosi e magnifici leoni delle elegie 4 e 6 a Sils Maria, rendendo comprensibile la spontaneità spesso khaotica di eventi pulsanti nel loro racconto, non lontano da quegli storici che rivelano l'identità sempre ricorrente delle cose nel tempo. 

E così ha ringraziato l'autore, il poeta, il narratore e lo storico per intrattenere e imporre un ordine che ha permesso di lasciarsi andare per consentire il nuoto della gente rilassata e sorridente intorno all'isola di dolore e passione.