Ability Quote by Hisham Matar

“Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way.”

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I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

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