Volume 35, Number 11 · June 30, 1988
Wilfred of Arabia
By Ian Buruma
The Life of My Choice
by Wilfred Thesiger
Norton, 459 pp., $25.00
Visions of a Nomad
by Wilfred Thesiger
Collins (London), 224 pp., £20.00
When people or their ideas become the object of cults, it is time to watch out. For cults by their very nature are beyond criticism. The beauty of cult worship lies in its irrationality. Cultists substitute exultation for thought.
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