1.) Idris Shah: The fortunaest man, the big book of the Suffi-Wisdom, Herder 1986. 
     pg. 66ff

2.) Theo Bauer, The Inscription Work of  Assurbarnipal. Central antiquariat of the
     GDR, Leipzig/G. 1972, vol. 1+2, vol 2, pg.3

'When an arrow is released from the bow, it may fly straight or it may not - all depending on what the archer does. How strange it is, that it depends on the archer's skill whether the arrow flies without deviation: If it does not strike its target, however, it is the arrow that must endure the curses.' 1)

'Show your wound,' is what Joseph Beuys recommended after he had bled and had transcended the idea of a border to nothingness by drawing an ultra-thin line in the intuition.


A comment on the Assyrian relief of Assurnasirpal II is found in contemporary cuneiform scripts of construction and benediction: 'Assurnasirpal's heart laughs while he tosses a (kind of) spear.' 2)

The Assyrian term ma^-seru is roughly defined with 'to burrow itself, to carve itself'. The meaning of the word 'wagon, driving with a wagon' is derived from the same word root and (characteristic of the country) extends the meaning of 'tracks or traces'.