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So I'm doing some reading
Mar. 11th, 2010 05:32 pmOne of the books I'm reading is by a gent named Tamim Ansary, who is Afgani, and while he helped write a textbook or two his Destiny Disrupted book on the history of Islam is making me laugh and grin and applaud, in between the 'oh, ye little monkey gods' moments about how history's gone down.
One line in particular made me laugh so hard I couldn't read it aloud for my deeply bemused roommate for a while.
The line, if you're curious, is "The first [corporation] was born in 1553, when forty English merchants ponied up twenty-five pounds apiece to finance a search for a sea route to India. The expedition they funded found Moscow instead of India (don't ask), but it brought home a tidy profit [. . .]"
No, I didn't add that parenthetical comment.
Yes, I just about laughed 'til I cried.
One line in particular made me laugh so hard I couldn't read it aloud for my deeply bemused roommate for a while.
The line, if you're curious, is "The first [corporation] was born in 1553, when forty English merchants ponied up twenty-five pounds apiece to finance a search for a sea route to India. The expedition they funded found Moscow instead of India (don't ask), but it brought home a tidy profit [. . .]"
No, I didn't add that parenthetical comment.
Yes, I just about laughed 'til I cried.
