| |
| | Observer | Ming the Merciless of Mongo, now he was a real man |
 | | Ming the Merciless of Mongo, now he was a real man |
 | | Babies who die before they are baptised do not, it turns out, spend all eternity in a miserable howling-baby world of ethereal gloom, all menacing white trees and half-stifled sobs. |
 | | It was all actually legendary, in the seldom-used correct sense of the word rather than the one wrongly accorded (real) footballers and jazz musicians, in that it was a fiction, a fabrication; Limbo existed no more than Ming the Merciless of Mongo existed, or the Dong with the Luminous Nose. |
| observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5347968-102273,00.html (375 words) |
|