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From I Object, by Ian Hislop

AFTER

"After 2002 weavers in the region outside Kabul added a further genre that might be termed 'War on Terror' rugs."

From Afghan War Rugs, page 176

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From The Road to Oxiana, by Robert Byron

TIMES CHANGE

"Teheran, January 17th. (1933) Another kink in the Persian mind is a mortal jealousy lest the Afghans should steal a march on them in the matter of Westernisation."

From Part IV

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From What Am I Doing Here, by Bruce Chatwin

AND

"And we shall lose the tastes -- the hot, coarse, bitter bread; the green tea flavoured with cardamons; the grapes we cooled in the snow-melt; and the nuts and dried mulberries we munched for altitude sickness.  Nor shall we get back the smell of the beanfields, the sweet, resinous smell of deodar wood burning, or the whiff of a snow leopard at 14,000 feet."

From A Lament for Afghanistan

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From The Poems of William Cowper

THE SOUND

"... The sound of war
Has lost its terrors ere it reaches me,
Grieves but alarms me not."

From The Task