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work_l2m5uzgnfvgnfmkmfpxy3tuose	Rudolphus Teeuwen	Walking among Palm Trees: Beauty, Culture, Geography	2015	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6779	415	68	That it is the trunks of palm trees that help convey the message of complete, unChristian foreignness is of a piece with much in eighteenthand nineteenth-century But the most striking reference I know to palm trees as an index of strangeness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries occurs in Goethe's 1809 novel Die palm trees as objects of beauty and then one day discovered I had made a mistake" a palm is its striped light" (34), Scarry observes elsewhere in her book, with wonderful perceptiveness and in the flush of discovery, as she diagrams Henri Matisse's To ask whether palm trees are beautiful is akin to asking whether people are Iyer's book reports on the Global Soul's new universality and discovers in its Ottilie's culturebound fear of the world of palm trees or Scarry's self-imposed cultural task of 	./cache/work_l2m5uzgnfvgnfmkmfpxy3tuose.pdf	./txt/work_l2m5uzgnfvgnfmkmfpxy3tuose.txt