"Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us."
"There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped."
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Source: Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo
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