... solitudes carpeted with flowers, his deserts of daffodils and irises, that he may exercise there the agility of his cavaliers and the muscles of his horses; that he may wage war there as once the paladins, and reap there his harvest of rebel heads. May Allah preserve to the Arab people its mystical dreams, its disdainful immobility and its grey rags. May he ... expectations. Also present, was a feeling of wanting a ˜traditional, exotic' experience by adventurous travelers. Clarke's story is different than Loti and Wharton, but one thing all three works have in common in the infatuation ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate