Status Updates From The Lord

"Oh come on, Challis, we can't hang someone on Good Friday. You know that."
"It's not Good Friday."
"We wouldn't do it on Yom Kippur either," said Kit angrily. "And as you know, we are mandated to treat all religions equally. No one is ever hanged during Ramadan and it will upset people quite unnecessarily."
"Are you certain? The man committed blasphemy. He's claimed something that no good Moslem can possibly accept.

He said the name of our villages would be wiped out of memory and that even the cemeteries would vanish. He is quite mad. People can't play with the forces of the jinm and not be affected.

By then the papers had found other subjects, Palestine not enjoying the capacity to increase sales, and things went on as before, except in the destroyed homes.

Talk of free speech and the iniquity of secret police is a fairly recent phenomenon in the West; generally it follows by a few years the end of their last dominions or other "possessions" and the consequent uselessness to them of such methods.

The horror of Sindbad's tale is that the woman never turns up and he has to do the work himself, that's what has made him a legend.

I’d been doing too much drowsy reading and ended up lost. Went back 20 pages and now I’m caught up.