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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Mythic Landscapes: Uqbar Roads Less Travelled


The Porte of Heaven through the garage of Sidi Ahmed or Saint Mehdi. Not often opened, but still on the UPS site as a viable address.
Legend has it that Saint Ahmed, or Mehdi as some say, owned the first Model T in Uqbar. He is reported to have run a soup kitchen in the Great Depression, and to have been bodily taken to Paradise in order to escape a bad debt owed to the Mob.

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