Thief of Baghdad
“It was warm, and many of my people, now that the winter rains were over, were sleeping on their roofs. Some of them, of course, were not sleeping. Baghdadians are very fond of what the Lady Mariam and her handmaiden called that.
I gained a couple of hundred feet of altitude, and lowered my embarrassment. There was no hurry about getting to the palace. I had a good deal to think about. Malek and Karim had a point: what was the use of running a city wisely, keeping it out of war, while the gr...eater part of the inhabitants went hungry?
Not starving. Very few people starved in Baghdad under the rule of Abdir the Foolish. But between starving and having to swallow the kind of trash that Ghamal’s men had been throwing to the fellaheen that day, a man with a sensitive palate might prefer to starve.
That was frivolous thinking, and I scolded myself for it. The hunger of Baghdadians was not a suitable subject for the humor of the Jinni of Baghdad.MoreLess
I gained a couple of hundred feet of altitude, and lowered my embarrassment. There was no hurry about getting to the palace. I had a good deal to think about. Malek and Karim had a point: what was the use of running a city wisely, keeping it out of war, while the gr...eater part of the inhabitants went hungry?
Not starving. Very few people starved in Baghdad under the rule of Abdir the Foolish. But between starving and having to swallow the kind of trash that Ghamal’s men had been throwing to the fellaheen that day, a man with a sensitive palate might prefer to starve.
That was frivolous thinking, and I scolded myself for it. The hunger of Baghdadians was not a suitable subject for the humor of the Jinni of Baghdad.MoreLess
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