Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-ninth audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. You'll find eight-and-a-half years' worth of our Tales archived here, in handy easy-to-access Netflix-style tile format. (Oh, and we do poetry, too.)
In this season of post-Groundhog Day late winter, we're enjoying (if that's the word) The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer. If you've missed the beginning of our tale, you can start fresh with Part One and have a good old binge-listen.
In tonight's episode our protagonist gets to the nub of the issue:
The crescent of Islam fades to-day and grows pale, but there are yet fierce Believers, a lust for the blood of the infidel. In such as these a faith dies the death of an adder, and is more venomous in its death-throes than in the full pulse of life.
The crescent of Islam did seem to be "growing pale" a century ago: that was the conventional widom. Alas, it did not quite turn out like that. Members of The Mark Steyn Club can hear Part Seven of our tale simply by clicking here and logging-in.
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Do join me back here tomorrow for Part Eight of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper.
