Sentences with phrase «spun by a dictator»

-- The Washington Post «Adam Johnson's remarkable novel The Orphan Master's Son is set in North Korea, an entire nation that has conformed to the fictions spun by a dictator and his inner circle... Mr. Johnson is a wonderfully flexible writer who can pivot in a matter of lines from absurdity to atrocity... We don't know what's really going on in that strange place, but a disquieting glimpse suggesting what it must be like can be found in this brilliant and timely novel.»

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Gee, does that mean that this Bible story like so many others in the Bible was just a myth spun by a bronze age dictator to control his subjects?
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