Also, the word “Muslim” comes from Arabic, meaning “one who submits” or “one who submits entirely to god” which is how Levi is using it here.
As someone who takes an intellectual interest in history, Levi’s comment of “Those who saw the Gorgon, have not returned to tell about it, or have returned mute” is something that just lives in my head.
A historian, in 1967, trying to politely tell people that the Mesopotamians were raunchy as fuck
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