another unprecedented sentence

This line comes from the odd Facebook quiz: “Which Chinese Rebel Are You?”

For me it turned out to be the “obese, affable, and power-hungry” An Lushan. But this sentence was my favorite part:

“Your paranoia is not unfounded: you are eventually mudered by your son, who was in turn murdered by another subordinate general.”

You might find that line in a Lingis book. (He loves to write in the 2nd person.) But almost nowhere else.

How does that chapter open in Lingis’s Excesses? I think it’s:

“I have paid them to torture you, Prasadchandra.”

And later, there’s something like this:

“Your skull is 69 cm in diameter, mean for Sinhalese.”

Nowhere but Lingis…