I decided to reread Sophie Hannah’s mystery novels about miserable motherhood because I’m tired and the novels make me feel pleasantly superior. Whenever I have a free moment, I grab my Kindle, open it and read a few pages of these mysteries set in rural England.
Imagine my shock when the first two lines I read in one of these sessions said, “Arabs reacted with dismay to the creation of the Jewish state.”
“Sophie Hannah has gone entirely to the dogs!” I began to rant. “Why does she have to bring Arabs into it? It’s like people can’t write two lines without fretting about Arabs!”
After a 10-minute rant that Klara thoroughly enjoyed, I discovered that the book I was reading was actually Mandelbaum’s volume on foreign policy.
Moral of the story: before labeling somebody an idiot, make sure you have the right idiot.
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