During this busy week of loads of schoolwork and work work for me to do, I have taken a rather bizarre tactic. I'm reading Janwillem Van der Wetering's "Corpse on the Dike" . It may be escapist and shiite-y of me, but oh well. The book was written in 1976. I checked this because they were describing the arab mentality as spiritual but militant and unyeilding.
