Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sahih Bukhari, Volume 2, Hadith 394
Sunni Hadith
“There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.”
— Malcolm Lowry, book Under the Volcano
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 35)
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