Sunday Sentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
His enemies loathed him and ridiculed the cult of personality that surrounded him, while his admirers already saw him at the Father of the Nation, a sort of miraculous blend of King David, Judah Maccabee, George Washington, Garibaldi, a Jewish Churchill, and even the Messiah of God Almighty.
Source: Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness (trans. Nicholas de Lange)