Was not expecting this comparison

[Michael Bailey]

Really kind of wish he had quit his day job…



On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM e tb <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Saddam always wrote longhand. On a good day he would produce fifty pages
> of elegantly inscribed Arabic script; on most days he could only manage
> ten. His sentences were long and tangled, like something out of the novels
> of William Gaddis or Thomas Pynchon. Saddam would frequently begin with a
> straightforward declarative phrase, slash through the middle of the
> sentence with a parenthetical digression, and then conclude with a wry
> comment, a bitter observation—always something unexpected.
>
> From Saddam’s Secret Weapon, a review of the new book The Achilles Trap by
> Steve Coll: Saddam’s Secret Weapon - The American Conservative<
> https://www.theamericanconservative.com/saddams-secret-weapon/>
>
> It's actually kind of fascinating, I had no idea Saddam was such a
> prolific novelist
>
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