Month: February 2001
I would have installed her in my house as if she were the mistress of my life
“I hate mummies, and all those I have seen, in museums, tombs or private collections, have inspired a deep sense of repugnance in me. I have never felt any attraction to those staring skulls, with their empty holes and chalky bones, which bear witness to civilisations long since departed. They remind me of our perishability…
A trial resemblng an angry protracted wedding and a death penalty in the balance
“Since Webb had a job and no police record, he is
Theater of deception: Confessions of an Iranian spy novelist
“Waxy, white, toilet paper quality bread that they fed us in abundance. It was the only thing they would feed us in abundance, for it came cheap and it served to quench our enduring hunger to some degree. It was against the rules, but we all would steal the index card-like bread in heaps in…
Western vogue for Eastern spirtuality is perhaps both homage and rip-off
“While it might be argued that the clash of serendipity and kitsch is cleverly conceived in my red velvet Buddha, and ironic in that winkwink postmodern way, and while it might even be maintained that in our late capitalist culture, irony is the only mode of critical distancing left open to us, is it not…
A thinking Iranian cannot by definition belong to an organization long
“There are two things about Iranians that succeed in failing them every time. First, Iranians are the strongest when they are least in number. One Iranian is stronger than two, and two Iranians are stronger than three, and so on. Second, another thing that fails Iranians is organization. Organization requires discipline and adherence to a…
Don’t touch that bloody jaywalker
“His bald spot is covered in blood due to a large blow to the head he suffered.
New Punjabscreen! (split in half by a large turban in front of you)
“If there’s one good thing about this whole experience, it is the fact that most of the employees are English and listening to them trying to pronounce the titles of Hindi films is one of the funniest things on earth. Seriously, get a big bunch of people together, make some snacks, switch on the speakerphone…
We cut a fair balance of not misleading the jury as to his intentions
“I think this is a fair example of no good deed goes unpunished, because it seems to me that that’s what happened
In the real world, the whole cast would be disbarred, pilloried, then exiled
“In court, because every legal case on Ally McBeal must eventually turn sexual, it emerges that the contested dance moves come from a lovemaking session
At one point, they agreed to buy a
“In characteristic style they had to be evicted from the Royal Box when they were found sitting in the chairs reserved for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.”