TATD passage and analysis
When Said realizes that he killed an innocent man instead of Ilish Sidra Chapter: 8 Passage: A voice outside the window hawked The Sphinx. Said got up at once, walked to the window, called the newspaper boy, handed him a small coin, and returned with the paper to where he’d been sitting, forgetting all about the Sheikh, his eyes riveted to a huge black headline: “Dastardly Murder in the Citadel Quarter!” He devoured the lines beneath in a flash, not understanding anything. Was this another murder? His own picture was there and so were pictures of Nabawiyya and Ilish Sidra, but who was that bloodstained man? His own life story was staring at him too, sensational doings blown in every direction like dust in a whirlwind – the story of a man who came out of prison to find his wife married to one of his underlings. But who was the bloodstained man? How had his bullet entered this stranger’s chest? This victim was someone else and Said was seeing him for the fir...