Teaser Tuesdays -- Empires of the Word by Nicholas Oster

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

They bring to mind visions of oriental absolutism, breathtaking ruthlessness and gaudy magnificence.  Despite their many pretensions, their cultural fertility and sometimes truly universal power, they have left no heirs.

 

~page 30, Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler