Gordon has posited a developmental connection between Ugaritic culture and Minoan culture. As for alphabets, it’s certainly true that the Ugaritic people had an alphabet. We know this thanks to the work of Charles Virolleaud, et al. In fact Ugarit invented an early alphabet, a cuneiform ...
“What is your secret power of settling a difficult matter?” a friend once asked him. “Whenever I deal with other people, and especially with Chinese,” was the answer, “I always ask myself two questions: what idea that I do not want them to have will my remark suggest to them, ...
When it comes to stopping a criminal, however, he has deductive skills worthy of any detective. There is a melancholy acceptance of the irony of crime here when Jim says, “people did the things they had to do, because of one desperate compulsion or another, and that was the way it wen...