zakleh

Updated: May 1, 2025

Rare was the land that had not sent representatives to this great dirt-shoveling congress. A Syrian merchant gasped for breath and fell over his counter in delight to find that I, too, had been in his native Zakleh, five Punjabis all but died of pleasure when I mispronounced three words of their tongue.

Harry Alverson Franck - Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers