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Quote by Mahmoud Mokhtar
There had been no sculptor in my country for seventeen hundred years and the images that appeared among the ruins and sands at the edge of the desert were considered accursed, evil — no one should go near.
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The speaker describes a country where sculpture had disappeared for seventeen hundred years. When images were later found among ruins and desert sands, people did not see them as art or history. They viewed them as cursed and dangerous, so the images were avoided. The passage shows how fear can shape the meaning given to unfamiliar objects.
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