Out for the count?

There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe

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Whilst, flat on their backs, on All Souls — All Saints nights in the Moravian church, where the congregation snuffle and wheeze, recalling all those Hussites burnt at the stake, for believing differently; for carrying the contagion of belief.

Fireworks, like blood red poppies, explode like the nebulas of stars, a tang of smoke clings to our clothes, congregates in our throats, as we seek leave to continue to grow old.

A veneer of dusty history sparkles as the mists swirl….. Turks and Mongols, Prussians and Russians, coalesce around braziers, roasting chestnuts, wearing mufflers and gloves, sometimes remembering the black death the plagues of the past and future.

I sneeze as the wind picks up off the Danube snow flakes spread through this freezing air, the Ottoman siege of Vienna culminated in the battle of Vienna 12 September 1683 which the Christian armies won and so turned back the Ottoman tide for 300 years or so.

Faces flare minutely illuminated in the smoke as blood mingles with invisible droplets of mucus, meanwhile silent going away parties fill the corners of empty rooms of the Hofburg, the imperial palace of the Habsburgs in Vienna.

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