August 13, 2004
NY Press & Osama Bin Laden
BIN LADEN SPEAKS OUT: On Citicorp, Spider-Man 2 and those Marisa Tomei rumors -
NYP: What's the best thing about being the scourge of Western civilization?Man-smell. The very reason I wouldn't make a good terrorist, not a fan of sausage fests that end up smelling like real wienerschnitzels.OBL: The food. The prosthetic limbs. Getting high and making scary videotapes to send to Al Jazeera. Inventing one's own fucked-up moral calculus and forcing others to live by it. Weaving a tangled conspiratorial web. The skiing. The caves full of stinky man-smell. Playing your lieutenants against each other to solidify your position. Rooting out leakers and torturing them in front of the men. The feeling of being close to God and doing the right thing. All of these things and more. But the absolute best thing is not having to be just another bourgeois real estate dealer with a big nose in Saudi Arabia, in a family full of them. I needed to have something of my own. I didn't want to have to go through life hearing people say, "Which one?" when the name bin Laden was mentioned.
Via agnosiophobia.
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