Q&@
Kun je nagaan
hoe het is en kan worden
als je vanjongsafaan met bepaalde genen
en toevallige omstandigheden & gebeurtenissen
leert leven en omgaan? Moederliefde, familie, buren, vrienden,
sprookjes, spookjes, huizen, tuinen, mensen, dieren, verhaaltjes en 'al wat groeit
en bloeit & altijd weer boeit'?! Dagelijkse bijbelliteratuur en wat daarop volgde: scholen, natuur
en cultuur, wereldwegen en onze 'waanzin'? Trade providing revenues that allowed rulers to fund military expeditions
targeting locations that brought yet more and richer resources into the empire!? It also enabled them (ÀND ùs!)
to further indulge notoriously extravagant tastes? Spectacular buildings that were erected in the huge cities
of Assur, Babylon, Persepolis, Pasargadae & Susa, where King DARIUS built a magnificent palace using
a highest-quality ebony & silver from AeGYPT & cedar from Levanon, fine gold from Bactria, lapis
lazuli & cinnabar from Sogdiana, turqu-oise from Khwarezm and ivory from India. The Persians
were were famous for their love of pleasure and,
according to Herodotus, only had to héar
of a new luxury to yearn
to indulge it?!!