A fabulous friend sent me a link to a couple of articles about novels written by dictators, with a special emphasis on Saddam Hussein's allegorical Zabiba and the King, in which a pagan king of ancient Iraq learns to love the beautiful and pious peasant Zabiba, and apparently there is also some (possibly metaphorical) sex with bears. (This as opposed to the "erotic" novel written by Dick Cheyney's chief of staff Scooter Libby, which featured actual sex with bears.)
The other book Hussein was a part of creating, and this is true and sort of creepy, is, in beautiful calligraphy, a Koran written in 27 litres of his own blood. The book poses a dilemma for Iraqi muslims, because it's not remotely halal to write the verses in blood, but now that it's written, it's a Koran and can't legitimately be destroyed either.
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