‘I was astounded. Is this where our cultural misunderstandings lie? Mistranslations, poor little pretty student had taken my name completely out of context. Being a nubile materialist, she had put my name and ancestry down to evolution and so had assumed that I had undergone a thing evolutionists call “punctual equilibrium” that is - once my ancestors had stabilised as “donkeys”, that is jahsh, they evolved into dogs. I was stupefied. We understood each other so well physically and her grades subsequently improved, but yet culturally and intellectually there was a chasm between us. And so, I decided to write this text and dedicate it to such students who wished to cross boundaries through cultural intercourse. I would like to think that I, in some small way, have managed to reduce all the
