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    If the sea were ink
    For the words of my Lord,
    the sea would be spent before the Words of my Lord are spent.
    Qur’An. The Cave 18:109, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)

    The linnet and the throstle, too, and after dark the long halloo
    And golden-eyed tu-whit, tu-whooof owls that ogle London.
    —Alfred Noyes (1880–1958)

    Jail sentences have many functions, but one is surely to send a message about what our society abhors and what it values. This week, the equation was twofold: female infidelity twice as bad as male abuse, the life of a woman half as valuable as that of a man. The killing of the woman taken in adultery has a long history and survives today in many cultures. One of those is our own.
    Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)