> Besides, as Lawrence explained, "Osama may be the world's worst
> terrorist, but he's also one of the best prose writers in
> Arabic." (The historian Bernard Lewis has called bin Laden's prose
> "eloquent, at times even poetic.")
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> the new ones-twenty-seven, with a special appendix for fakes-will
> reflect bin Laden's prose as Lawrence reads it: stark, lean, free
> of colloquialism, resonant in multiple registers. "His language is
> like Chaucer's in its archaic expression," Lawrence said.
Isn't it ironic that meritocracy functions in the ranks of terrorists but not (cf. <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ IntelligentDesign140.jpg>) in the liberal democracy of the United States?
> [Here we go... "Smaller than usual fee" from Verso is pretty funny.]
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> (Lawrence has accepted a smaller than usual fee, of five thousand
> dollars. )
That's less than what I got for translating half a book (English -> Japanese) in Japan nearly two decades ago!
Michael Hoover could also tell you funny Verso stories (but he probably won't).
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org> * Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/mahmoud- ahmadinejads-face.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/chvez- congratulates-ahmadinejad.html>; <http://montages.blogspot.com/ 2005/06/iranian-working-class-rejects.html>