In the Eastern spirit, there are two contradictory natures: cruelty and elegance, and with both of them intertwined like two serpents, the outcome is a horrendous savagery underneath the shell of beauty and sophistication. Such is the ways of the Orient.

The Turks conducted massacres of ineffable brutality and indescribable sadism, but they at the same time, had their poets, their rhythmic music, their gentle manners, their animate paintings and ornamental arts pleasing to the eyes. MORE