Leonardo da Vinci picture of last supper painting

Leonardo da Vinci picture of last supper paintingGustav Klimt lady with fan paintingGustav Klimt two girls with an oleander painting
That's him. Mahound theman, climbing his hot mountain in the Hijaz. The mirage of a city shines below him in the sun.
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The city of Jahilia is built entirely of sand, its structures formed of the desert whence it rises. It is a sight to wonder at: walled, four-gated, the whole of it a miracle worked by its citizens, who have learned the trick of transforming the fine white dune-sand of those forsaken parts, -- the very stuff of inconstancy, -- the quintessence of unsettlement, shifting, treachery, lack--of--form, -- and have turned it, by alchemy, into the fabric of their newly invented permanence. These people are a mere three or four generations removed from their nomadic past, when they were as rootless as the dunes, or rather rooted in the knowledge that the journeying itself was .
-- Whereas the migrant can do without the journey altogether; it's no more than a necessary evil; the point is to arrive. --.
Quite recently, then, and like the shrewdthey were, the Jahilians settled down at the intersection--point of the routes of the great