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experiencedtraveller5/20/2009 8:35:45 pm PDT

re: #168 Killgore Trout

Inshallah.

Ha. I love that term. In practical conversation with any Arab it basically means ‘future tense’.

You can’t say ‘see you later’ without the inshallah added.

You can’t say ‘lets have a meeting tomorrow’ without the expected response of ‘inshallah’.

In some odd and islamic-centro-way it salutes the human condition in its very mortal form. We do not know what tomorrow brings.