Friday, January 1, 2010

Trained camels

From Alberto Manguel's A History of Reading. And here I thought I was an enthusiastic reader. Now I realize I am just a piker.
To avoid parting with his collection of 117,000 books while travelling, the avid reader and Grand Vizier of Persia, Abdul Kassem Ismael, has them carried by a caravan of four hundred camels trained to walk in alphabetical order.

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