![]() Firestone maintains that all wars are really puzzles, and the victors are the ones who get to pronounce their solutions. References to pop culture, Nabokov and the Beatles and Humphrey Bogart included, are viable means to such an engagement. This kind of engagement is particularly relevant, I think, to those of us who are dissatisfied with the dominant narratives in Western media describing (it would be more accurate to say "purporting to describe") the aims of Islam and Muslims. Nabokov awoke this kind of fury, and he also got people to think - surely a positive development. ![]() So it's good to write a book that calls attention to its own mechanisms, questions those mechanisms, and thus makes readers engaged, or even angry, participants in the story, rather than passive consumers. Readers eager to remain unaware of how storytelling works are unlikely to challenge storytelling when it is used (as it often is) to further interests that are foreign or detrimental to their own. ![]()
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