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— Henri Cartier-Bresson"The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world."
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Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.
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