You may have already seen this article in today’s Washington Post on the glories of Baghdad’s past at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56350-2003Mar19.html. I couldn’t help but think about your story Ramadan, and Haroun al-Raschid’s desire to keep his glorious city just as he knows it. I think that it’s appropriate for all of us to remember that what is now Iraq was once the paramount center for learning and science. — Laura Gosling
I find myself remembering someone telling me off on Genie because, according to whoever was telling me off, Baghdad was virtually unscathed in the Gulf War, and I had the kid who heard the story limping home across a bombsite. I think I’d rather that they had been right and I had been, and remained, wrong. Right now it looks like Sandman 50 will have been more accurate than I knew. –Neil
That was found on Neil Gaiman’s journal yesterday.
The Washington Post article can be found here.
If you haven’t read Sandman #50, go to your local bookstore and ask for the Fables and Reflections trade paperback by name.
-Groonk
