These fragments I have shored against my ruins. -T.S. Eliot

These fragments I have shored against my ruins.  -T.S. Eliot
Showing posts with label Zakarīyā’ ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zakarīyā’ ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī. Show all posts

Saturday, July 14, 2012

A World Without Water



























"Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.”
-Richard Flanagan

Images:
(1) Pierre Belon, Monk Fish from Harvard University Library’s copy of ‘De Aquatilibus’

(2) Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt - كتاب عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات) by Zakarīyā’ ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī, originally published in 1283.