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Via (and quoted from) Metafilter; Paul Cooper on Twitter:"One of the most interesting places my ruins research has taken me is into the world of ancient Arabic poetry. So here's the story of how a tiny fragment from the opening of ancient poems became one of the most enduring poetic tropes in history:"



(and of course the very first comment on MeFi is someone going "Can't we also trace a bit of this [pre-Islamic Arabic] tradition to [dead white dude]"?)