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Praktike's Egypt Diary

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Frequent Winds of Change.NET commenter praktike recently returned from a trip to Egypt. You can find his travel diaries here.

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Tracked: September 28, 2004 10:45 AM
Diary of Egypt from Rishon Rishon
Excerpt: A very interesting blog-diary of a trip to Egypt. Excerpt (via Winds of Change): One point that stuck with me in particular was his notion of the Rational Peasant, because I had been walking around Cairo and seeing much behavior...

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Thanks for the link!

You're welcome. You also had a couple of links while you were away.

Yes, I saw that; thanks again. I noticed that Arthur responded (graciously), and that his latest edition seems to reflect our conversation.

Praktike,

It was a good conversation. And I agree with Rishon-Rishon that your bit about "The Rational Peasant" is a really good one. You ought to expand that one with more examples from various places and aid programs to lock in your point.

N.B. The one thing I don't have for you is a working email address (americanfootprint.com is OOO). Could you kindly drop me a private line backchannel for my personal use, joe here at this domain name? Thanks.

I'll send you an email tout de suite. And I'll also try to talk more about the "Rational Peasant" when I get a chance. My fatal flaw as a writer is my brevity, alas.

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