"Before long, the folly was to become too desperate, too disastrous, too wrecking a business to be a comic show even to the most amused eyes; the circus was, all too soon, to go smash, and the folly of the clowns who had helped to smash it became bitterness, and the idiot's tale held too much of sound and fury to be borne. But these first-Georgian years were, to Rome [a character], twinkling with bland absurdity." --Told by an Idiot (1923)
"If read in the tanzil order of revelation, the Quran sounds like an apocalypse; if read in the order of the mushaf, the Quran sounds like an epic." --Todd Lawson, The Quran: Epic and Apocalypse (2017)
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