double cliche introduces a negative, always a sign of literary insight
By RANDY BOYAGODA
One can only hope that the rush to conscript writer Orhan Pamuk of Turkey as a literary mediator in the clash of civilizations will fail.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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