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Excerpt from Garments of Power
The Orient is a hemisphere of con trasts. Here wealth reaches its high est height and poverty its deepest depth. In close proximity lie the palace of a king and the hovel of a leper. Nature herself is clothed in extremes: torrents of daily rain dur ing the monsoons and furnaces of desert heat through the dry seasons. Three great luxuries are marble, water, and perfume.
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