A Public Service Courtesy of the Transgressive Transcendentalists (a.k.a. God's Unruly Friends*)
Friday, June 24, 2016
O Death!
Britain votes to exit the EU, but Le Marabout Errant would draw your attention to the most significant departure of this day, the passing of Dr. Ralph Stanley at the age of 89.
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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