Guinness World Record Day shows Human Spirit Indomitable and Silly

Juan Cole 11/16/2013

Thursday was devoted to breaking Guinness world records on the part of people who walked over 60 upright bottles, did 41 handsprings in a row, and coordinated masses of hula hoop dancing. Further proof that the human spirit is both indomitable and irredeemably silly. Persian Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi said that humans are donkeys with angel wings…

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment and Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. Follow him at @jricole.