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The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

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“They glided out of the heat-haze on their camels like specters. There were twenty of them, and they were Tuareg. Their faces were hidden by black veils that left only slits for the eyes, and they wore purple robes that fluttered in the desert wind. They carried swords, muskets and seven-foot iron spears, and wore stilettos in sheaths on their left forearms. They were an impressive, sinister sight.”

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Book:Death in the Sahara: The Lords of the Desert and the Timbuktu Railway Expedition Massacre
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“With the truth that you have gone out of my life, This is also true: you never left my heart and mind. Always walking with me, every step, side by side, And each moment, I feel you beside. You’re gone, you’re gone, And you left in my soul, dark seams. You left in my soul, dark seams. And every night, I’m chasing you in my dreams. I’m chasing you in my dreams. Not to blame you, not to probe you, Neither do I want To show anger or insult you. Just to feel your love again, mmm, Just to feel your love again, One more time, Hold me in your hug for a while, If it’s the last time. To feel your touch again, I’m chasing you in my dreams. In that moment when time defies, To kiss you with deep, endless eyes. To see your face in moonlit beams, Every night, I’m chasing you in my dreams. Let’s come, sit down together, and compose again. Let’s try to write our story, this time without pain. There was only one last note misplayed In our love song. Otherwise, after all, To each other we belong. To make you hear my screams— Every night, I’m chasing you in my dreams. I’m growing tired, enough is enough. Leave me now, this bloody pain—let it end. In shadows deep, where nothing redeems, I seek the peace that silence redeems. But... Nothing’s going to change, It clearly seems. So... to die in your embrace, Every night, I’m chasing you in my dreams. So... to die in your embrace, Every night, I’m chasing you in my dreams. I’m chasing you in my dreams.”

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“You and I my love! She said, “I want to be alone when I am with you.” And I replied, “My love, it will still, and always be, you and I, Alone I do not know, but with you, only with you, Because with you, I am you and not I, And everything around me fades into a state of nonexistence, It is just you and only you wherever I see, Even the universe seems to draw from you its very existence, And in this universe with you and within you forever I wish to be, Alone, very alone, only with you my love Irma, just with you, And what a wonder it shall be to be in this state of emotional stillness forever, Where I am you , you are me and everything within me rushes to kiss you, Yet the feeling everyday is fresher, finer and newer, And the desire to be alone with you keeps growing stronger, And my love Irma I cannot wait any more, Now I neither have the will, the desire nor the power, I wish to kiss you, touch you just like before, Under the moonlight, just you and I, Where you are my only desire, To be so till eternity, you and I , only you and I, With no end to this passion and fire, Just like the waves in the endless ocean of love, I wish to sail with you till the time’s end, You with me, to be truly you and I, my love, Let it be so, each day, each hour, each moment till the end! For a memory of a moment with you my love, I shall relinquish eternity without you, So let us be alone, only you and I , my love, Where you are a part of me and I am a part of you. That is when my love Irma, you shall feel truly with me and I shall feel the same with you, Even when surrounded by the crowd of million souls, we shall still feel alone, you just with me and I with you!”

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“As all things come from and are imbued with the quintessence of Spirit, all things are holy and alive in their own right—and anything that has a physical existence contains within it a unique personality, energy, and expression of Spirit.”

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Book:Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation
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“Mon frère, Claude,' urged Florence, leading me to a youth just like herself in broad shape and countenance. He talked rapidly with Florence, all the while tending a tiny copper saucepan. Then breaking off his talk, he reached for a teaspoon, and with all the worshipfulness of a priest at an altar, Claude tasted the shining stock, his face blank to all but his sense of taste. 'Quintessence,' whispered Florence, sniffing in awe at the rising steam. 'For many days the meat is reduced to create the soul of the sauce.' Then with measured care he reached for a lemon and squeezed in four steady drops. The name of the dish was souffle, as the French write it. I wrote the particulars down, as it was a most magical dish. Who would have guessed that egg whites fraught for a long while could make a dish rise like a cloud? Once it had risen in a hot oven, Claude dressed the souffle with a ring of honeyed quintessence. It quivered on a pretty porcelain plate like a gently steaming puffball.”

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Book:An Appetite for Violets
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