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The Ancient Imagination and the Birth of Potential

"Sahara in the Sea"

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Nigeria Picture by Camron Karsten
Travel story: The Ancient Imagination and the Birth of Potential

I can’t really describe what it is like to fly over the Sahara at 39,000 feet in a 747 jet. It is like empty space, yet I know I have never been there, or at least physically laid eyes upon it while floating freely in stupor—and I know most others have not either. It is like an open valley, or a calm sea with limitless horizons. There are no hills from above. Certainly no mountains. There are dunes which I can see, but only fingerlings of thirsting riverbeds, long ago dried, now swept by... More

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