Frankenstein in Baghdad

by Ahmed Saadawi

He knew that Farid Shawwaf was spiteful and hard to please and always trying to discredit people. He

There are laws that human beings are unaware of. These laws don’t operate around the clock like the physical laws by which the wind blows, the rain falls, and rocks fall down mountains, or like other laws that human beings can observe, verify, and define because they apply to things that recur. There are laws that operate only under special conditions, and when something happens under these laws, people are surprised and say it’s impossible, that it’s a fairy tale or in the best case a miracle. They don’t say they’re unaware of the law behind it. People are deluded and never admit their ignorance.

He philosophized a little in the article, saying there were three types of justice – legal justice, divine justice and street justice – and that however long it takes, criminals must face one of them. Publishing the article won Mahmoud points for courage

That’s why Mahmoud didn’t send a hostile response to Saidi’s message, or any other kind of response. He left things in a grey area, like the sky that day, trying to use Saidi’s own style against him, leaving him uncertain.