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====Leo Africanus====
by Amin Maalouf
<blockquote>"In that year, the sacred month of Ramadan fell in high summer. My father rarely left the house before nightfall, as the people of Granada were short-tempered during the daytime. Quarrels were frequent, and a sombre bearing was regarded as a sign of piety; only a man who was not keeping the fast could smile under the fiery heat of the sun, and only a man who had no concern for the fate of the Muslims could remain cheerful and friendly in a town exhausted from within by civil war and threatened from without by the unbelievers."</blockquote>
*[[The Mailstrom]] - Scorpion [http://themailstrom.com/scorpion_4rTL21.htm]
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====M. Butterfly====
by David Henry Hwang