i found a piece of paper between  p.44 en  p.45 :

in :

("Sounding Ore")

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(WORK WITH PAPER, in support of tuition and education)
(utrecht, 1960)

...and the first item of  SPINESAMBA

...

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ai...........to open a book from 1896

ai...........to close a book from 1896

                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                shadownews in :                         

                                                              kelek & guffanews in :

2)

1)

1) GÖTTER UND KULTE IM PTOLEMAISCHEN ALEXANDRIEN, Visser Elizabeth, Amsterdam 1838
2) HERODOTUS' DESCRIPTION OF BABYLON, Ravn O. E., Kjobenhavn, 1942

some archeological books got quite romantic pictures...

( a woman 22-24 and a man 18-20 years old, died like this in a hidden place in the burnt down citadel of Hasanlu, Iran, 2800 years ago....)

(from : The Hasanlu Lovers, Oscar White Muscarella

            in : AMILLA The Quest for Excellence, ed. B. Koehl, 2013)

ai...sometimes when you open a book from 1930

ai...sometimes when you close a book from 1930

from : Ik weet alles van wijn ,1962   (I know everything about wine)

isn't it nice that once upon a time somebody wrote a book about galopping?

stuck on page 3 of

i found this

a (nice)quote from the book : i keep the qasida in my memory like a restful retreat, and cary it in my heart like an amulet.





( a qasida being a kind of poetryform of the arab world, the ancient pre-islamic qasida's often about life in the desert, with beautifull descriptions of animals, this is from a qasida of abrid al-abras :