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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett.

Recently I had a chance to talk with Hollid Hosseini.

He's the author of the Kite Runner and a thousand splendid sons.

And I was interviewing him in front of an audience

here in San Diego about his latest bestseller

and the mountains echoed.

Hosseini grew up in Afghanistan

and there poetry is integrated into daily life in a way that we're not used to here in this country.

He said that in Kabul you can walk around and you can see the kind of graffiti that you see anywhere in the world but then you'll go

around a corner and you'll see that somebody spray painted the work of a 13th century mystic poet.

And we were talking also about the fact that Proverbs are a part of the fabric of everyday conversation there.

And here's one that I know you'll like.

A porcupine speaking to its baby says,

Oh my child of velvet.

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