Speaking of music, a British harp enthusiast has undertaken the laudable project of reconstructing the Harp of Ur, which was a casualty in the looting of the Iraqi museum. He's receiving help not only from an Iraqi calligrapher and an Iraqi harpist, but also from the RAF, who have procured Mesopotamian cedar wood, that the reconstruction may be as authentic as possible. Despite this, the ignorant will doubtless persist in claiming that Western civilization has no respect for other cultures. I mostly wonder if the reconstructed harp will ever be used to accompany the Sumerian version of Blue Suede Shoes.