Whether you read this book of mine or tear it apart, it is devoid of everything you care to know or look at.
All I can tell you about the news is that the spring trees have begun to smile about their flowers, and the gentle breeze is bringing to me in my room at this hour in which I am writing to you the scent of the first violet flower and the first lily stalk.

Mustafa Lotfi Al-Maflouti