According to James Boswell, Dr. Johnson confided to Sir Joshua Reynolds that "the great business of his life was to escape from himself." (The Life of Samuel Johnson, Modern Library edition, p. 81).
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A Public Service Courtesy of the Transgressive Transcendentalists (a.k.a. God's Unruly Friends*)
*Disclaimer
I have taken the term "God's Unruly Friends" from the title of Ahmet T. Karamustafa's eponymous book (subtitled: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550), Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Professor Karamustafa, a man of formidable scholarship and consummate taste, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this blog. His book has a rather oblique and complicated relevance to my blog insofar as it has helped me to get in touch with my own inner Dervish--but that is neither the fault of the book nor its author.
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- Sidi Hamid Benengeli
- Part Irish, part Dervish, ecstatic humanist, critical Modernist, transgressive Transcendentalist.
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