[Dialogue] Happy Birthday Kazantzakis

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It's the birthday of Nikos Kazantzakis,  born on Crete (1885). He wrote Zorba 
the Greek (1946), and The Report to Greco (1961), in which he describes 
himself as a young man arriving at a monastery in the Sinai Desert, and asking 
the abbot if he can make a retreat in this holy place, where he will be sure 
to hear the voice of God. The abbot tells him, "All voices can be heard here 
in the desert. And especially two which are difficult to tell apart: God's and 
the devil's."