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An old story, which I just saw again in a Substack article:

"There once was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, pale and trembling, and said, “Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a woman in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that had jostled me. When I backed away, she looked at me and began to reach towards me! Lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me.”
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop, away he went.
Then the merchant who was out a horse and still short of his desired provisions went down to the marketplace. When he saw Death standing in the crowd, he walked up to Death and said, “What are you doing? Why did you make a threating gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?”
Death replied, “That was not a threatening gesture. It was only a start of surprise. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.”

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