To clarify: the title is excerpted from Act 1 of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. The full quote goes:
"Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
It's a warning against spending too much of your life in scholarly pursuits.
Day By Day
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Tunisia Trip -- Part Forty One
And here we are in Kairouan, the fourth most holy city in Islam, at the entrance to the Great Mosque of Uqba. Dating from 670 AD it is the oldest place of worship in the western Islamic world.
A local vendor -- one of many.
Colonnades
The central courtyard.
An open well.
The Three-tiered Minaret
Doors
The entrance to the Prayer Hall
The Prayer Hall interior with the mihrab and minbar in the background.
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