Eesh, I think I didn't make this clear --> This is not the whole story, it's just excerpts... That's not how the story starts--it's just a piece of a section. Hmm..maybe doing excerpts
isn't such a good idea...
Well, maybe if I make the point a bit more clear. I basically just have been using the story to get certain ideas out. I will say this, though: Alfonso thinks along the same lines as I do (I model him after me), so his thoughts are bound to be a bit confusing :0P
But let me know what you think of this next excerpt--maybe I've made it a bit more clear...
By this time Alfonso has decided that he is going to try to make a new life for himself in Libya. He leaves the ship and is trying to put his old life behind him.
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Originally Posted by excerpt 2 from Chapter 2, "He Who Receives You Receives Me"
He discovered it was truly impossible to consider with words the majesty and simplicity, the loftiness and the depth, the sharpness and the flatness; the breathtaking beauty and the life-giving calm of which the Djebel Akhdar are composed. To Alfonso, it seemed that to call the Green Mountains a plateau region was to deny their pyramid-like grandeur. To call the rifts he espied from afar valleys was to desecrate the finger of God which appeared to have hewn them out as only Perfection could dictate. And yet to call them marvelous; magnificent...seemed to overshadow the sense of inexplicability which made them thus.
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This one is a particular favorite of mine, because I really went all-out when describing the Green Mountains. Let me know if you think I got the idea across (namely, that this is a beautiful place worth seeing and being at).