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An Interlude in the Holy Land
Our official tour of the Old City began the next day in the Armenian Quarter, where our guide paused along a narrow corridor to reflect on the Armenian Genocide. “Do you know what happened to the Armenian people under the Ottoman Empire?” he asked.
“Love words, agonize over sentences, and pay attention to the world.”
— Susan Sontag