Strange contemporary Mutazilites cannot admit of His breaking the very rules of logic and ever-recurring laws of nature and of the skies which He has created for the ongoing well-being of mankind – that is the order, patterning and customary practice dear to the fitra of the middlemost human creature which is inherent in life itself. Long live the Ash’aris!

And O for the return of holydays, far from the flippancy of singles-, kids- and womens’-days and the oncreep of the kobalds of halaween over that churchy-scourge luther.

From the intimate eye to eye nose-greeting welcome of the Bedouin or the hongi of the Maoris – no chance of missing a piercing glance into the heart of the man’s matter – to the handshake of salutation, acknowledgement, and trade, to the mutual nodding or elbowing of separation. How long before the distant wave? Towns of Lowry’s men and women. Es lebe die Intimität!