Imad Rahman

Imad Rahman is a Pakistani-American fiction writer whose first short story collection was published in 2004. writer Quotes Short fiction The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand, by James Butt (2013) Page numbers are from the original publication of the story in Kate Bernheimer (ed.), xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013), published by Penguin Books, 978-0-14-312242-5 “People like me,” he says, “are either in power and fighting to stay in power, or we are not in power and fighting to be in power.” p. 335 Men like me, we are necessary because we unite those we recruit to keep us in power, and we unite those who have been recruited to put different versions of us in power. It is just like Woody Allen says, in a revolution oppressors become oppressed and vice versa. pp. 335-336 “How did he die?”“Firing squad.”The Brigadier-General snorts. “I do not much care for comedies,” he says. p. 337 Does circumstance reveal character or create it? p. 338 Is this dementia, desperation, or Machiavellian mischief? It occurs to me that the course of the world is perhaps set in motion but idiocy so convoluted it is rendered complex. p. 343 Real refugees live in real refugee camps. Photo opportunities with celebrities call for movie sets. Army privates, starved for weeks and stuck in the stockade, are conscripted to act like refugees and thereafter either assassinated or promoted, depending on the things that these sorts of things usually depend on. p. 344 External links Category:Academics Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:People from Karachi Category:Short story writers Category:Living people