How sweet will be the victory of the wretched, and how great!
How sweet will the songs be on that golden day, and how brilliant the golden sun of the wretched as it blazes.
How sweet this dangerous dream - that hopes will be realized, that wishes become true.
That a dream will become reality, that the wretched of the earth will have their state.
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"Escape to Hell, and other stories", Muammar Qaddafi;
Review by David Seals / June 17, 1998
A few pages into Muammar Qaddafi's 'Escape to Hell, and other stories' a strange feeling came over me; I didn't realize what it was at first. Under the heading of Part I: Novels, I read the first sentence, "The city has been with us since ages long past, but regard its plight today!" It quickly became apparent this was no ordinary work of fictional entertainment with characters and a narrative plot. It wasn't going to fit into any genre of post-modernist minimalism, much like Qaddafi himself does not fit into any one place in the world as a political or religious figure.
