"It's a mixed-up place: its name [Nagorno Karabagh] uses the Russian nagorno for mountainous, the Turkish kara for black and the Persian word bagh, meaning orchard, garden or vineyard." --Hugh Pope, Sons of the Conquerors (2005)


"Fundamentalism is a kind of necrophilia, in love with the dead letter of a text." --Terry Eagleton, After Theory (2003)


11:11.