Etheria Deserta
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- Travels in Arabia Deserta: (book) written (1888) by Charles Montagu Doughty, an English poet and traveller, written in an extravagant and mannered style modelled on the King James translation (i.e. the Authorized Version) of the Bible
- ether: the lumeniferous ether, a substance once thought to fill all space and that allowed electromagnetic waves (such as radio waves) to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy (rejected by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity) → the next paragraph describes the propagation of radio waves and their conversion into sound by the radio in HCE's busy bar
