Rhetoric and Logic

"You can predict when a cream pie will hit you?"

"In two minutes."

"OK. Wait in the next room."

The officer looked at the next applicant.

"You a mimic? You look just like-"

"My twin."

Are my enemies to laugh at me?

The bell: Buttercup Festival 3-386

Of ghosts and sundry.

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Al-Idrisi's world map made for Roger II of Sicily in 1154 CE (Kitab Rujar or Tabula Rogeriana), from 'Alî ibn Hasan al-Hûfî al-Qâsimî's 1456 copy. Note: South is at the top of the map.

Al-Idrīsī—also rendered as Al Idrissi, Edrisi, or Sharif Al Idrissi Sebti—whose full name was Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Idrīs al-Qurṭubī al-Ḥasanī al-Sabtī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد ابن محمد ابن عبد الله ابن ادريس القرطبي الحسني), and also known as Dreses, sometimes nicknamed “the Arab of Nubia,” was an Andalusian Arab explorer, geographer, botanist, and physician, born around the year 1100 in Ceuta, then part of the Almoravid Empire.

He was raised in Morocco and al-Andalus, studied in Córdoba under Almoravid rule, explored much of the Mediterranean, and also travelled in Europe. He is believed to have died around 1165 or 1175, either in Sicily or in Ceuta. He belonged to the Idrisid sharifian lineage.

So here’s what you have to do if you want to have perfect skin while keeping that alpha grindset:

Wash your horses first even if you are caked in blood and dirt

Wash your mighty arms

Don’t use Perfume, rub yourself with manly olive oil only

Don’t do make up, don’t even look into a mirror, you already have a chiseled jaw and flashing eyes

Instead run 120 laps around a racetrack to give your face a natural blush

Comb your hair with a golden comb

Excelsior!

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