Friday, 24 November 2017

As for coffee: it is an innovation

As for coffee: it is an innovation; it prevents sleep; it dulls the generative powers; and coffee houses are dens of sedition.

Evliya Celebi, Book of Travels 1.6, ed. & tr. R.Dankoff & S. Kim, An Ottoman Traveller (2010), 25

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