Robert Snell
speaker
12 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2014
last heard May 2014
Robert Snell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
In the name of Allah, the most beneficent, the most merciful.
I was on the Baghdad road, returning at my camel's slow pace from an excursion to the famous city of Samarra on the banks of the Tigris, when I saw a modestly dressed traveller sitting on a rock who looked as if he was recuperating from a voyage.
We passed through the heavy iron gate and down a narrow corridor into the splendid inner garden of the palace.
This garden, laid out with exquisite taste, was shaded by two rows of orange trees.
Passing through a variety of richly furnished rooms hung with tapestry fringed in silver thread, we at last reached the rooms of the king's minister, who was reclining on large cushions and conversing with two friends.
I wanted to make a small suggestion, replied Bérémis.
If you were to remove from the herd the defective animal, the total would be 256, which is the square of 16.
16 times 16.
The gift offered to the father of the delightful Astir would then have a mathematical perfection, the number of camels equal to the square of the age of the beloved.
The number 256 is an exact power of two, a number held to be symbolic by the ancients, while 257 is a prime number.
These relations between squared numbers are good auguries for lovers.
I love The Man Who Counted.
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